User manual NOVELL FILE SYSTEM FACTORY 1.2.1 ADMINISTRATION

[. . . ] Novell File System Factory 1. 2. 1 ADMINISTRATION GUIDE August 30, 2005 www. novell. com Legal Notices Condrey Consulting Corporation makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents of this documentation, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Further, Condrey Consulting Corporation reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes to its content, at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. Also, Condrey Consulting Corporation makes no representations or warranties with respect to any software, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Further, Condrey Consulting Corporation reserves the right to make changes to any Condrey Consulting Corporation software product described herein, at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. [. . . ] If your path list consists only of multiple paths on the same volume, you should use the Random algorithm instead. A path is selected from the target path list based on the percentage space remaining on the volume holding each of the target paths. The path on the volume with the most disk space remaining is selected. If your path list consists only of multiple paths on the same volume, you should use the Random algorithm instead. Percentage Space The name of the directory created in the selected target path will be the common name (CN) of the user or group object. If a directory by the same name already exists in the target path (there are multiple objects with the same common name), File System FactoryTM will select the next path from the targeted list. If the list is exhausted without finding a location for the directory, the transaction is moved into the NO_PATHS area of the event database, a message is issued, and the NO_PATHS event counter is incremented. Deletion Processing Management Another valuable aspect of File System FactoryTM that makes it unique is its ability to automatically cleanup user and group disk space based on events in the Directory. The design of File System FactoryTM is such that the engine is still able to locate a specific user's home directory after the user has been deleted. A Policy definition allows the Administrator to specify when (or if) the disk space owned by an object is to be automatically deleted when the object is deleted from the Directory. There are three choices: Choice Description Never File System FactoryTM never deletes the disk space owned by objects in containers associated with this Policy. Immediately File System FactoryTM deletes the disk space owned by objects in containers associated with this Policy as soon as the objects are deleted from the Directory. Deferred N days File System FactoryTM deletes the disk space owned by objects in containers associated with this Policy but allows the Administrator to delay the deletion for a specified amount of time after the objects are deleted from the Directory. If the deletion management attributes of a given policy are changed and deletes being governed are pending on the File System FactoryTM process list, the administrator may option to have those delete events modified to conform to the latest attributes. For example, suppose a policy is configured to defer deletes for 30 days and there are 400 deletes pending because of this policy. If the policy is changed to defer deletes for 45 Novell File System FactoryTM Administrator's Guide © 2002-2005 Condrey Consulting Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 44 days, the administrator will be prompted for approval to modify the 400 pending deletes so that each of them adheres to the new 45 day policy. Novell File System FactoryTM Administrator's Guide © 2002-2005 Condrey Consulting Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 45 12 Backfill Operations In some cases, it may be necessary to retroactively apply a given policy to existing users and file systems. Or it may be necessary to perform some administrative corrective action or operation on a large set of users. File System FactoryTM collectively refers to this type of operation as a "Backfill". A backfill operation is issued through the File System FactoryTM web interface. Also available from the backfill operation page, a diagnostic consistency check report can be run. These reports can help determine what backfill options need to be run against a given group or container. See more details on the consistency checks in section 10. [. . . ] She should then modify her Policy that she defined in Part 1 above by adding path definitions so that it points to the SAN-connected cluster. She should remove the path pointers to the 5. 1 servers. Finally, she should run a full backfill operation against the user containers using the "Enforce Path" option. All user home directories will be moved from the 5. 1 servers to the SAN-connected cluster seamlessly. [. . . ]