Different users have different levels of access to VSM GUI. For each user, a user role is assigned that governs the level of VSM GUI access the user is allowed. There are three user roles:
VsmViewer: views information in the GUI
VsmOperator: runs Management Commands and VSM Console activities
VsmGuiAdmin: Administers VSM GUI
Each user is assigned a VsmViewer or VsmOperator role for each tapeplex defined in the Site Configuration. All users of VSM GUI therefore have at least VsmViewer access to all the tapeplexes.
Users with the VsmViewer role can see the following:
Status menu: All menu items
Display menu: All menu items
Administration menu: Database Update Log
Users with the VsmOperator role can see all of the above plus the following:
Management menu: All menu items
VSM Console menu: All menu items
Users with the VsmGuiAdmin role can see the following in addition:
Administration menu: All menu items