Patent ID: 8151360

Claim:
A system configured to administer security in a logical namespace of a storage system environment, the system comprising: a remote agent of an integrated management framework, the remote agent installed on a host machine of a first domain in the storage system environment; and a namespace and storage management (NSM) server, comprising a processor and a memory, residing in a second domain and cooperating with the remote agent to dynamically establish a trust relationship with the host machine of the first domain by transferring at least one application program interface (API) message from the NSM server to the remote agent to delegate responsibility of issuing system calls associated with namespace and storage management to the remote agent, thereby enabling remote agent-based namespace and storage management, through the NSM server, across multiple domains of the storage system environment, wherein rights are assigned to a user of the host machine interacting with the NSM server in accordance with a security administration feature of the integrated management framework and wherein an authentication procedure is provided, utilizing a database of the NSM server, that indicates the rights assigned to the user to ensure that the user has appropriate rights to perform operations on the NSM server.