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Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

You're reading from   Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions Deploy, manage, and automate your datacenter

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786464408
Length 482 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Prasenjit Sarkar Prasenjit Sarkar
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Anuj Modi Anuj Modi
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Preface 1. What's New with Cisco UCS FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Cisco UCS Hardware 3. Setting Up a Lab Using Cisco UCS Emulator 4. Configuring Cisco UCS Using UCS Manager 5. Configuring LAN Connectivity 6. Configuring SAN Connectivity 7. Creating Identity Resource Pools, Policies, and Templates 8. Creating and Managing Service Profiles 9. Managing UCS through Routine and Advanced Management 10. Virtual Networking in Cisco UCS 11. Configuring Backup, Restore, and High Availability 12. Cisco UCS Failure Scenarios Testing 13. Third-Party Application Integration 14. Automation and Orchestration of Cisco UCS

RBAC


UCS RBAC provides granular control over the user security privileges. Combined with UCS organizations, RBAC delegates and controls the user access privileges according to the role and restricts user access within an organization boundary defined for the tenant in case of multitenancy.

Access privileges provide the users with the capability to create, modify, or delete a specific type of configuration. UCS provides some predefined roles and it is also possible to create custom roles based on requirements. The roles are a collection of different privileges. Hence, roles can be assigned to users according to their job requirements. For example, there's a built-in role called read-only that provides only read privileges to the user. This role can be assigned to any user to whom you do not want to provide any configuration capability.

In UCS, a user's authentication can be configured from various resources including the following:

  • Local user
  • LDAP (Active Directory, OpenLDAP, and so on)
  • RADIUS...
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