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Automatic Configuration

If SFS is already in use at your site when you install CA VM:Director, you can identify each file pool that you want CA VM:Director to manage, then have CA VM:Director determine the configuration of this file pool and the user IDs who use and manage it.

This function is available on the same screen at which you identify file pools to CA VM:Director, through the PF2(Auto–Config) key.

Note: For more information about the actual procedure, see Adding a File Pool and User Storage Groups to the CA VM:Director Configuration.

As part of this determination of the SFS configuration for each specified file pool, CA VM:Director checks the following:

All user storage groups

All user storage groups that CA VM:Director finds in the specified file pool that are in use by valid user IDs are identified to CA VM:Director so that user IDs can be assigned space in them through CA VM:Director. If there are user storage groups that you do not want managed through CA VM:Director, you can remove them from the CA VM:Director information after it completes its automatic configuration.

The allocation limit CA VM:Director sets for each user storage group identified to CA VM:Director is 300 percent. This means that each user storage group under the control of CA VM:Director, can be allocated to 300 percent of its physical space. (The section, Allocation of Space in User Storage Groups, explains how user storage groups can be allocated beyond their physical sizes.)

User IDs currently enrolled in SFS

The names of all user IDs currently using that file pool are added to the CA VM:Director list of enrolled user IDs. The user storage groups in which these user IDs are currently using space are listed in CA VM:Director as the ones they are authorized to use, and the amount of space they are currently using is their limit.

For instance, if user ID FSTONE is using 15 K blocks of space in user storage group 3 in file pool VMX004, FSTONE’s enrollment information in CA VM:Director is for file pool VMX004, user storage group 3, with a space limit of 15 K blocks.

Directory managers for those user IDs

For each file space that is owned by a VM user ID, CA VM:Director finds the name of that user ID’s directory manager and adds that directory manager to CA VM:Director as an SFS manager. Further, those VM user IDs are assigned their directory managers as their SFS managers.