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  4. Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)
  5. Roles and privileges on Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)
NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide

Roles and privileges on Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)

This section describes the privilege required by the Dell EMC PowerScale / Isilon user account, used for plug-in configuration, on the storage array. Privileges in OneFS are assigned through role membership; not directly to the user. You can create a custom role with the required privileges and assign it to the user.

Table: Permissions required by the Isilon user account on the array

Platform API

Read-only

Namespace access

Read-only

Namespace Traverse

Read-only

Network

Read-only

Snapshot

Read/Write

NFS

Read/Write

SMB

Read/Write

SyncIQ

Read-only

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