Patent ID: 9275072
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of establishing hierarchical user management authority for a plurality storage resources organized into a plurality of resource groups in a computing storage environment by a processor device, comprising: associating the plurality of storage resources with a resource group object, the resource group object and a storage resource object by having a resource group attribute associating the storage resource object with one of the plurality of resource groups; assigning a resource group label attribute to the resource group object; defining at least one additional attribute of the resource group object that specify a plurality of management policies for the resource group object and the plurality of storage resources associated with the resource group object; associating at least one of a plurality of available users of the plurality of storage resources with a user resource scope attribute; defining a schema for comparing of a plurality of values of the user resource scope attribute with the resource group label attribute, wherein the at least one of the plurality of available users has authority to perform one of creating, modifying, delete, and managing the plurality of storage resources associated with the at least one of the plurality of resource groups and also authority to perform one of creating and modifying at least one of the plurality of resource groups; associating at least one of the plurality of available users with the user resource scope attribute further includes designating the user resource scope attribute as the delimited text string, wherein at least one symbol is designated with at least one wildcard characteristic; and defining a schema for comparing of a plurality of values of the user resource scope attribute with the resource group label attribute further includes considering a user to have authority to manage the plurality of storage resources associated with at least one of the plurality of resource groups if a text pattern specified by the user resource scope attribute matches the delimited text string specified in the resource group label of the resource group.