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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2005
Joshua H. Flank, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven R. Klinkner, Fremont, CA (US);
Benjamin B. Swartzlander, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy J. Thompson, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan G. Yoder, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joshua H. Flank, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven R. Klinkner, Fremont, CA (US);
Benjamin B. Swartzlander, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy J. Thompson, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan G. Yoder, Mountain View, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Centralized role-based access control (RBAC) for storage servers can include operating multiple storage servers, each configured to provide a set of clients with access to stored data, and using a separate network server to provide centralized RBAC. The network server may include an API proxy to proxy requests to access individual APIs of a storage server by an application which is external to the network server and the storage server and may control access to the individual APIs of the storage servers on a per-API, per-user and per-object basis. The API proxy may filter responses to API calls based on the access privileges of the user of the application which sent the API call. In some embodiments, the network server may implement a Windows domain server, an LDAP server or the like to evaluate security credentials of administrative users on behalf of multiple storage servers.