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Policy Definitions and Application
File System Factory™ Policies are where the Administrator defines how disk space is to
be managed for the objects in the container(s) associated with that Policy. Typically, an
Administrator will perform these actions:
1. Designate some disk storage for File System Factory™ to use for a given Policy.
2. Define a Policy, pointing the policy at the disk space.
3. Associate the Policy with one or more objects in the tree.
File System Factory™ then handles all the disk allocation, management, and cleanup for
objects that inherit or are directly assigned those policies.
How is a Policy Assigned and Inherited?
A user storage policy may be assigned to the following object types:
When File System Factory™ performs an analysis on an individual user object, it must
determine which policy, if any, to use. It determines this by searching in the following
order until a policy is located or the list is exhausted:
Assigning a Policy Directly to a User
As mentioned above a user storage policy may be assigned to the user object directly
instead of having the policy be inherited from a container or group that the user is a
member of. This policy assignment may be done using the File System Factory™ web
interface, or the attribute may be set using any tool or program that can write to
eDirectory. For example, an LDAP application or a Novell Identity Manager (formerly
DirXML) driver might set this attribute as part of the user provisioning process.
In some provisioning solutions, the user may be created before there is an opportunity to
set this attribute. This is not an issue unless there is another policy that may be assigned to
a container or group that may affect the user.
To guard against premature application of a container or group assigned policy, File
System Factory™ contains a configurable parameter for delaying evaluation of new user
events.
You should plan based on your account creation and provisioning process before creating
a situation where multiple policies may apply to any single user.
Novell File System Factory™ Administrator's Guide
Organization
Organizational Unit
Group
User
1. Direct assignment to the user itself.
2. An assignment to a group that the user is a member of. The groups are
searched in the order that the user was added to them in eDirectory.
3. The parent container of the user object.
4. The parent's parent container and so on up to the [Root].
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