File System Factory

Lyn Waddington & James Partridge

OUCS

4 February 2005

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A New Philosophy

…and be done with it.

Point your tree…

…at your disk…

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SolutionYeah, we can do that…

We

and most importantly…

create it,

manage it,

clean it up!

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FSF

Netware

Netware

Identity-Based Storage Management

eDirectory

BorderManager

ZENworks for

Desktops

NetMail

Identity MgrPeopleSoft

Identity Mgr

Active

Directory

LINUX

Peoplesoft

• Policy Based, Event-Driven

• Control it with ZENworks® like policies.

• Load balancing

• Storage creation• Storage management• Storage cleanup

• Personal user storage• Group storage

Driver Driver

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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

What does it do?

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Demo 1 User and File Store Creation

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The view from ConsoleOne

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Deleting a user (ConsoleOne)

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The view from the Netware console

AddMember event

DeleteMember event

AddOwner event

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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

Trustee Rights (Demo 2)

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Demo 1:Student1 logs in to submit his thesis

proposal

QuickTime™ and aMPEG-4 Video decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

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A lecturer picks up the thesis proposal and sets an assignment

QuickTime™ and aMPEG-4 Video decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

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Student 1 collects his work

QuickTime™ and aMPEG-4 Video decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

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Advanced User Creation (Demo 3)

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Summary

More information:

Condrey Consulting Corporation http://www.condreyconsulting.com/production/index.htm or http://www.filesystemfactory.com/

Forum: novell.support.file-system-factory

Conclusion