User Category Permission Condition
Application administrator Conditionally Allowed Metadata can be set for only
volumes, snapshots, snapshot
groups, clusters or hosts, and
only for objects associated with
the application administrator
executing the command. Hosts
or clusters should be associated
with the user. Volumes should
be mapped to a host or a cluster
associated with the user.
Snapshots or snapshot groups
should be ones created by
application administrator.
Security administrator Disallowed N/A
Read-only users Disallowed N/A
Technicians Disallowed N/A
Completion Codes:
v OBJECT_BAD_NAME
Referenced object does not exist.
v MAX_METADATA_OBJECTS_REACHED
Maximal number of metadata objects has been reached.
Deleting Meta Data
Deletes a meta-data of an object.
metadata_delete
object_type=Object
name=Name key=Key
Parameters:
Name Type Description Mandatory
object_
type
Enumeration Type of object. Available
values: cg, cluster, dest,
destgroup, host,
performanceclass, pool,
rule, schedule, smsgw,
smtpgw, target, user,
user_group, vol.
Y
name Object name Name of object Y
key String Metadata key. Y
Access Control:
User Category Permission Condition
Storage administrator Allowed N/A
Storage integration administrator Allowed N/A
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