Adding a New SFS Manager

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Adding a New SFS Manager

Any VM user ID that is a directory manager can be made an SFS manager. To designate a user ID as an SFS manager, you must be an SFS administrator; your status as a system administrator is of no consequence.

When you add new SFS managers to CA VM:Director, you also specify the following information:

A file pool from which they can allocate space to the user IDs they manage.
A user storage group in this file pool from which they can allocate space.
The default number of 4 K blocks they will allocate to user IDs in this user storage group.
The default number of 4 K blocks allows managers to enroll their user IDs more quickly. You can make the default whatever size you think is a reasonable amount of space for most user IDs to use. If the default number of blocks is inappropriate for a particular user ID, that user ID’s manager can specify a different number of blocks.
The maximum number of 4 K blocks they can allocate from this user storage group to all the user IDs they manage
The managers are allowed to divide this maximum number of blocks among their user IDs in any proportion, or even not use the maximum number of blocks for all the user IDs they manage.

You can set this allocation limit to any size. CA VM:Director does not check it against the actual size or the allocation limit of the user storage group until this manager actually tries to allocate space from this user storage group.

To add an SFS manager to CA VM:Director

From CMS, enter the following:

vmdirect admin sfsmgrs

This command displays the SFS Managers Configuration Menu.

SFSMGR SFS Managers Configuration Menu VM:Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + | | | Selection: Manager: | | | + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 1 Define new SFS Manager 2 Change File Pools/Storage Groups 3 Delete SFS Manager -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PF1:Help PF3:Quit PF10:Print PF12:End

In the Selection field, type 1 to select the Define New SFS Manager option. In the Manager field, enter the user ID you want to make an SFS manager.
This option displays a list of available file pools, known to CA VM:Director that are available for assignment to this new SFS manager.
Using the Tab key, move the cursor over the name of the file pool to authorize the new SFS manager to allocate space from. Press Enter.
Doing so displays the list of user storage groups defined for this file pool.

Using the Tab key, move the cursor over the number of the user storage group to authorize the new SFS manager to allocate from. Press Enter. This displays the Set Storage Group Settings screen.

This screen lets you define the scope of SFS manager’s authority in the user storage group. The top four fields are for display only; they identify the SFS manager and the user storage group for which you are defining authority.

SFSSG2 Set Storage Group Settings VM:Secure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manager: MAINT File Pool: IL User Storage Group: 2 Current Allocation: 0 Default Allocation Size (4K Blocks): 0 Allocation Limit (4K Blocks): 0 Change to Default Group? (Y/N): Y ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PF1:Help PF3: Quit PF10:Print PF12:End

In the Default Allocation Size (4K Blocks) field, enter the number of 4 KB blocks that this SFS manager should assign to user IDs by default when allocating space from this user storage group. (The SFS manager can override this default size and assign a user ID a different amount of space when allocating space to a user ID.)
This default allocation size must be a whole number from zero (no allocation) through 4,294,967,295.
In the Allocation limit (4K Blocks) field, enter the total number of 4 KB blocks you want this SFS manager to be able to allocate from this user storage group to all user IDs he manages.
This allocation limit must be a whole number from zero (no limit) through 18,446,744,073,709,551,615.

This manager’s allocation limit works in conjunction with the actual amount of space available and with the user storage group allocation limit when the SFS manager tries to allocate it. Imposing no limit on what the manager can allocate means that the allocations he makes in this user storage group are restricted only by the amount of space actually available for allocation and the allocation limit you specified for this user storage group.
In the Change to Default Group? (Y/N) field, enter n if you do not want this user storage group to be the one that this manager assigns to a user ID by default when assigning this file pool to a user ID. Keep the value as Y if you do want this user storage group to serve as the default for this file pool for this manager.
Only one user storage group can be the default for a given file pool for a manager. If you authorize a manager to allocate from three user storage groups in the same file pool, and you keep this setting as Y for each of them, only the last group from which you authorize this manager to allocate will be the default user storage group for this manager in this file pool.
Press Enter to save this authorization.
You are returned to the SFS Managers Configuration Menu.

You can define more authority for this new SFS manager, by:
- Adding more file pools to the one just added to this SFS manager
- Adding more user storage groups in the file pool you just added
Both of these functions are discussed in the following section.
Give the SFS manager authority to use the CA VM:Director SFS commands on the user IDs he manages.
Note: For more information, see Authorization for SFS Managers.

Additionally, if you did not already give the SFS manager MANAGE authority to use all selections on the Manager Selection Menu, give the SFS managers MANSEL10 authority on a GRANT record in the AUTHORIZ CONFIG file.