## Assigning SME Roles and Users

The SME feature provides two primary roles: SME Administrator (sme-admin) and the SME Recovery Officer (sme-recovery). The SME Administrator role also includes the SME Storage Administrator (sme-stg-admin) and SME KMC Administrator (sme-kmc-admin) roles.

To set up the roles and users, note the following guidelines:

• Create the appropriate SME roles, that is, sme-admin and/or sme-stg-admin and sme-kmc-admin, and sme-recovery in the Advanced Master Key Security mode.

• Choose separate users for the sme-kmc-admin role and the sme-stg-admin role to split the responsiblities of key management and SME provisioning. To combine these responsibilities into one role, choose the stg-admin role.

• Use DCNM-SAN to create users for sme-admin, sme-stg-admin, and sme-kmc-admin roles as appropriate.

• In the Advanced mode for the master key, create three or five users under the sme-recovery role.

• Create users on the switches for all of these roles.

To learn more about the roles and their responsibilities refer to the “Creating and Assigning SME Roles and SME Users”. For detailed information on creating and assigning roles, refer to the Security Configuration Guide, Cisco DCNM for SAN and the Cisco MDS 9000 Family NX-OS Security Configuration Guide.