1.22 Novell Storage Services

NSS provides the following enhancements and changes in OES 2015 SP1:

Delayed Block Allocation

Improvements in block allocation algorithm leading to reduced disk fragmentation. For more information, see Delayed Block Allocation in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

Trustee Index Media

A new media format has been introduced beginning with OES 2015 SP1 to improve the scan time of trustee information for NURM, NFARM, and TrusteeInfo.xml. For more information, see Trustee Index Media in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

nsscon (Enhanced)

Commands are added for the following:

sputil

A new administrative tool has been introduced beginning with OES 2015 SP1 for performing purge operation on files deleted by eDirectory and AD users.

For more information, see sputil in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

OES User Rights Management (NURM)

NURM provides the following enhancements and changes in OES 2015 SP1:

  • Contextless login: A new feature has been added to disable the contextless login for eDirectory users.

  • Refreshing user maps: If the mappings have changed since the time a user map was created, they could be refreshed using the same conditions that were used while creating them.

  • Two way synchronization of rights: Using the user-rights-map utility, rights could be synched between Active Directory and eDirectory.

  • Secure LDAP port to connect to the AD server: You can now use SSL to connect securely to an AD server. Some of the standard LDAP ports for Active Directory are 389, 636, 3268, and 3269.

  • Map rights using multiple user maps: You can now select multiple user maps and apply rights on the selected volume.

  • Pagination and filtering: When the number of records to be displayed are huge, they are paginated, and each page holds up to 1000 records. The filter option works based on records in all the pages.

For more information, see NURM (OES User Rights Management) in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS AD Administration Guide.

OES File Access Rights Management (NFARM)

Salvage and Purge Support for Active Directory and eDirectory Users: Beginning with OES 2015 SP1, Active Directory and eDirectory users can perform salvage and purge operation. eDirectory users can perform salvage and purge operations through CIFS using NFARM utility without AD integration. For more information, see Salvage and Purge in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS AD Administration Guide.