topic Re: Read only Netapp SVM access in ONTAP Discussions

Read only Netapp SVM access

NetApp_Journeyman — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:23:12 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to give clients Read Only SVM access? I have someone who needs to access several SVMs and I don't want to give them admin access

Thank you

Re: Read only Netapp SVM access

TMACMD — Mon, 31 May 2021 17:13:51 GMT

Sure is. It’s called RBAC

Role Based Access Control

you would need to create a svm mgmt LIF for the svm. Create the role to allow the Read only access. Create a user with the new role

details here

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.pow-adm-auth-rbac/home.html

Re: Read only Netapp SVM access

paul_stejskal — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:17:42 GMT

Are you talking like a CIFS share or CLI/ZAPI/REST access?

Re: Read only Netapp SVM access

ttran — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 05:11:37 GMT

Hello @NetApp_Journeyman,

Specifically, you will need to configure the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to use the role "vsadmin-readonly" if you are trying to configure read-only access; thanks @TMACMD. Keep in mind this is for SVM Administration and not the same as client-specific RBAC for shares and files within an SVM, which will be controlled through Active Directory.

Regards,

Team NetApp

Re: Read only Netapp SVM access

NetApp_Journeyman — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:25:08 GMT

The former, yes!

Re: Read only Netapp SVM access

NetApp_Journeyman — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:26:07 GMT

Thank you,and everyone else who responded

Your quick and effective suggestions are always appreciated 🙂