File System Factory

1
File System Factory

• Lyn Waddington James Partridge
• OUCS
• 4 February 2005

2
A New Philosophy
Point your tree
at your disk
and be done with it.
3
Solution
Yeah, we can do that
We
create it,
manage it,
clean it up!
and most importantly
4
Identity-Based Storage Management
Identity Mgr
PeopleSoft
Driver
Driver
LINUX

• Policy Based, Event-Driven
• Control it with ZENworks
• like policies.
• Load balancing

• Storage creation
• Storage management
• Storage cleanup
• Personal user storage
• Group storage

5
What does it do?

• For provisioning / de-provisioning users in
  eDirectory
• Policy driven automatic allocation of Filestore
  at user creation (manually, by LDAP or dirXML)
• Policies can also apply quotas, set trustee
  rights, etc.
• Event driven
• Can reallocate, archive or delete filestore when
  users removed
• Ideal for data migration
• Developed in partnership with Novell

6
Demo 1

• User and File Store Creation

7
First Steps (Demo 1)

• Show existing users or file stores in the
  OUCS_TEST tree
• Create user manually in Courses container
• Show changes in VOL2\Courses
• Add new user to Course_name Group
• Show new directory structure in Courses container
• Show events on the fsfevent.nlm screen
• Remove user from group
• Show change explain e.g., delayed deletion,
  reallocation of filestore

8
The view from ConsoleOne
9
Deleting a user (ConsoleOne)
10
The view from the Netware console
AddMember event
DeleteMember event
AddOwner event
11
Trustee Rights (Demo 2)

• Trustee rights how they work for users
• Login as student1 and show directory view save
  some document in Turnin directory
• Login as student2 and show directory view same
  another document as above
• Login as staff and retrieve the documents. Make
  changes and save again

12
Demo 1 Student1 logs in to submit his thesis
proposal
13
A lecturer picks up the thesis proposal and sets
an assignment
14
Student 1 collects his work
15
Advanced User Creation (Demo 3)
16
Conclusion

• Summary
• More information
• Condrey Consulting Corporation http//www.condreyc
  onsulting.com/production/index.htm or
  http//www.filesystemfactory.com/
• Forum novell.support.file-system-factory