topic Re: Quota options in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/Quota-options/m-p/68308#M14234 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>There aren't many clean options for this. You could regulate access to the /etc/quotas file via permissions so they could edit it, then create a user on the controller that only has access to the quota command using the RBAC funtionality.</P><P></P><P>A cleaner, but more complicated way would be to write a program/script that uses the <SPAN __jive_macro_name="document" id="1110" title="ONTAP SDK"></SPAN></P><P>that does exactly what you want. I'm not aware of one that's already written though so you'd have to be comfortable writing code to go this route (thus it's potentially more complicated).</P><P></P><P>I'm not sure if Operations Manager can use RBAC to that granular level, but if it could, that would be an option. I'll let others comment on that if they know.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:43:40 GMT adamfox 2008-09-25T22:43:40Z Quota options https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/Quota-options/m-p/68303#M14233 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN>We are utilizing an S500 for user home drives with quota management. How would we give helpdesk staff the ability to increase quotas without giving administrative access to the whole device?</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:33:20 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/Quota-options/m-p/68303#M14233 dowkmiller 2025-06-05T07:33:20Z Re: Quota options https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/Quota-options/m-p/68308#M14234 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>There aren't many clean options for this. You could regulate access to the /etc/quotas file via permissions so they could edit it, then create a user on the controller that only has access to the quota command using the RBAC funtionality.</P><P></P><P>A cleaner, but more complicated way would be to write a program/script that uses the <SPAN __jive_macro_name="document" id="1110" title="ONTAP SDK"></SPAN></P><P>that does exactly what you want. I'm not aware of one that's already written though so you'd have to be comfortable writing code to go this route (thus it's potentially more complicated).</P><P></P><P>I'm not sure if Operations Manager can use RBAC to that granular level, but if it could, that would be an option. I'll let others comment on that if they know.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:43:40 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/Quota-options/m-p/68308#M14234 adamfox 2008-09-25T22:43:40Z