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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2006
K. Uday Kishore, Bangalore, IN;
Shankar Balasubramanian, Bangalore, IN;
K. Uday Kishore, Bangalore, IN;
Shankar Balasubramanian, Bangalore, IN;
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method administers security in a logical namespace of a storage system environment. A remote agent performs an integral security-related role within a management framework that is directed to off-loading administration of privileges from a namespace and storage management (NSM) server for namespace and storage management. NSM server rights are defined and assigned to a user of the NSM server in accordance with a security administration feature of the management framework. In addition, a multi-stage authentication procedure is provided to ensure that a user has the appropriate rights to perform operations on the NSM server.