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Default Enrollment Values

An SFS administrator can make an SFS manager’s enrollment functions easier by setting up enrollment defaults for that manager. Several defaults are available for an SFS administrator to define for an SFS manager, such as a default enrollment file pool, a default user storage group in each file pool, and a default allocation size in each user storage group.

The administrator sets up enrollment defaults when defining SFS managers, and can change the defaults at any time. The managers must have allocation authority to the file pool assigned to them as the default file pools, and to each user storage group defined as their default user storage group for each file pool. Additionally, they must be able to allocate at least as much space in each user storage group as the default amount of space set up in their defaults.

If an SFS manager accepts the enrollment defaults as the enrollment values for a user ID, they are actually passed on to SFS.

For example, these are the default enrollment values for SFS manager BGEDDES:

Her authority includes allocable space of 5,000 blocks in user storage group 4 in file pool VMXA, so these default enrollment values will help her enroll several user IDs in SFS easily.

When BGEDDES enrolls a user ID in SFS, these enrollment defaults are the ones that CA VM:Director displays for that user ID. She can change these default values for this user ID at the time she enrolls this user ID simply by typing over the default values she wants to change. For example:

SFS itself now indicates that user ID SREED has 500 blocks of space in user storage group 2 of file pool VMXB.

Any subsequent changes an SFS administrator makes to BGEDDES’s default enrollment values do not affect any user IDs that BGEDDES already enrolled in SFS with her previous default enrollment values.

If an administrator sets up a manager’s enrollment defaults and then removes the default file pool from that manager’s authority, the administrator will erase that manager’s enrollment defaults. This does not affect any user IDs BGEDDES already enrolled in SFS with her previous default enrollment values, but does prevent her from enrolling user IDs in SFS. The SFS administrator must assign new enrollment defaults to this manager before she can enroll user IDs again.