International Business Machines Corporation

Michael William Panico

Michael Andrew Bockus

Hypatia Rojas

Kim-Khanh Vu Tran

Gregory C Birgen

Frank P Feuerbacher

Sandra Ann Bowers

Disclosed is a computer implemented method and apparatus to provide authorizations to an administrative user. An integrated solutions console (ISC) receives an administrative user login corresponding to a console administrative user. The ISC presents a list of at least one management task. The ISC presents at least one input interface to a display for an administrative user name and at least one console role. The ISC receives an administrative user name and a console role. The ISC obtains an authorization descriptor that can be used to couple the administrative user name and the console role.

Associating operating system native authorizations with console roles

A graphical user interface is implemented with unique icons for registered but not mounted file systems, registered and mounted file systems, and mounted but not registered file systems. The unique icon for the registered but not mounted file systems permits management of such file systems by users within the network.

Management graphical user interface for a network file system

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Michael William Panico