Dynamic File Services 2.2 Administration Guide
- Dynamic File Services 2.2 Administration Guide
- Overview of Dynamic File Services
- Benefits of Dynamic File Services
- Deployment Scenarios
- Key Components of Dynamic File Services
- What’s New for Pairs and Policies Management
- What’s New for Dynamic File Services 2.2
- What’s New for Dynamic File Services 2.1
- What’s New for Dynamic File Services 2.0
- What’s Next
- Getting Started
- Installing and Setting Up Dynamic File Services
- Connecting to the Dynamic File Services Server
- Creating a Dynamic File Services Pair
- Creating a Policy
- Associating the Pair and Policy
- Creating More Policies and Pairs
- Enforcing Policies
- Viewing the Merged File Tree for a Standard Pair
- Reviewing Retained Data in a Retention Pair
- Backing Up Files in the Pair
- Planning for Pairs and Policies
- Server-Centric Management
- Management Groups
- Reviewers for Retention Pairs
- Active Directory Domain Configuration for Remote Shares
- Server Configuration Requirements
- Storage Requirements
- Pair Requirements
- Access Rights for a Standard Pair
- Using Remote Shares in an Active Directory Domain
- Using Remote Shares in a Workgroup
- Using Cloud Storage as the Secondary Path in a Retention Pair
- Naming Conventions for Pairs and Policies
- File Name Path Length
- Merged View for Standard Pairs
- File and Folder Attributes and ACL Permissions in a Standard Pair
- Duplicate Folders in a Standard Pair
- Duplicate Files in a Standard Pair
- Orphan (Ownerless) Files
- System Files and Other Files that Are Not Moved
- Policy Schedules
- Time Displays
- Event Logging
- Using Antivirus Software with Pairs
- Using Backup Software with Pairs
- Using Compression with Pairs
- Using Disk Quotas with Pairs
- Disk Space Availability and Moving Files
- Using Encryption with Pairs
- Using Microsoft Distributed File System with Pairs
- Using Dynamic File Services in a Windows Cluster
- Using Dynamic File Services in Windows Safe Mode
- Using the Management Tools
- Service Controller
- Management Console
- Repair Tool
- Filter Driver Diagnostics
- Command Line Interface and Utilities
- Configuring and Managing the Service
- Requirements for Administering the Service
- Registering the License Key
- Configuring Administrators for Pair Management
- Starting and Stopping the Service
- Configuring Audit Tracking Events
- Configuring the Notification Service
- Configuring the Logging Level for Engines
- Configuring a Certificate for Secure Remote Management Sessions
- Configuring Firewall Access for the Service Port
- Configuring Ports for the Service and Retention Review
- Viewing the Product Version and Build Information
- What’s Next
- Managing Servers in the Management Console
- Setting Up a Server in the Management Console
- Accepting a Dynamic File Services Certificate
- Connecting to a Server
- Viewing a List of Servers and Their Connection Status
- Viewing Server Properties
- Disconnecting from a Server
- Recovering a Lost Connection to a Server
- Exporting and Importing a Server List
- Removing a Server from the List
- What’s Next
- Creating and Managing Pairs
- Understanding Pairs
- Creating a Pair
- Preparing Remote Shares for Use in a Pair
- Providing Users with a Merged View of the Files in a Standard Pair
- Including or Excluding Folders from a Pair’s Policy Runs
- Viewing a List of Pairs
- Viewing the Pair Status
- Viewing Properties for a Pair
- Moving Selected Files or Folders
- Scheduling the Pair History Scan
- Reporting Conflicts for Attributes and ACL Permissions on Folders
- Reporting Conflicts for Duplicate Files
- Unlinking the Paths in a Pair
- What’s Next
- Creating and Managing Policies
- Understanding Policies
- Creating a Policy
- Customizing the File Types Filter
- Viewing a List of Policies
- Viewing Properties for a Policy
- Associating or Disassociating Pairs and Policies
- Modifying Policy Filters
- Starting a Policy Run
- Previewing a Policy Run
- Stopping an In-Progress Policy Run
- Exporting and Importing Policies on a Dynamic File Services Server
- Deleting a Policy
- Troubleshooting Policy Conflicts
- Examples of Policy Rules
- What’s Next
- Creating and Managing Policy Schedules
- Understanding Policy Schedules
- Creating a Policy Schedule
- Viewing Properties for a Schedule
- Modifying Policy Schedules
- Unscheduling Policies
- Associating or Disassociating Schedules and Policies
- Deleting a Schedule
- Creating and Managing Cloud Accounts
- Understanding Cloud Storage
- Setting Up Cloud Access Credentials and Folders for Your Cloud Storage Provider
- Creating a Cloud Account
- Viewing Properties for a Cloud Account
- Viewing a List of the Retention Pairs That Use a Cloud Account
- Modifying the Access Credentials for a Cloud Account
- Deleting a Cloud Account
- Managing Retention Reviews
- Understanding the Retention Repository
- Configuring Reviewers for a Retention Pair
- Configuring Reviewers to Receive Email Notifications
- Scheduling Notification Reviews for a Retention Pair
- Configuring the Review Notification Check Timer
- Reviewing Files in the Retention Repository
- Viewing the Review Transaction History
- Generating a Report for Retention Review Logs
- Archiving the Retention Review Logs
- Monitoring Pairs and Policies
- Viewing the Pair Statistics
- Viewing the Policy Execution History for a Pair
- Viewing a Policy Run History of Files Moved
- Viewing a Policy Run History of Files that Failed to Move
- Viewing the Pair History
- Viewing the Server Disk Capacity and Used Space History
- Viewing Logged Events
- Viewing Service Events
- Auditing Management Events
- Generating a DynamicFs Configuration Report
- Repairing the Pair, Policy, and Schedule Databases
- Understanding Repair Options
- Reporting the Status of the Databases
- Taking a Snapshot of the Databases
- Restoring a Snapshot of the Databases
- Troubleshooting Repair Issues
- Security Considerations
- Security Features
- Registry Settings
- Service Configuration File
- Server Management Configuration File
- Database Files
- Notification Service Configuration Files
- Log Files and Logging Control Files
- FAQs and Troubleshooting
- Why can’t I log in to the Dynamic File Services server?
- Can I cancel a policy that is running?
- How do I configure a policy to not run without disassociating it from the pair?
- How do I see what policies are running or what files have been moved?
- What can I do if the Service is not running?
- Why can’t I start the Service after using the Repair tool?
- Why can’t users see the data on a remote share?
- Access Denied error when modifying a file at the root of a secondary path
- Path Too Long Exception error in the Standard Policy log
- Pair Is Busy error for pair with a remote share as secondary
- File Transfer Size Exceeded Error
- Certificate error for the Retention Review Service
- Invalid File Handle error for a policy run
- How do I find event ID information?
- Diagnosing a Filter Driver failure
- Using iSCSI Targets in a Cloud Storage Environment
- Guidelines for Using iSCSI Targets in the Cloud
- Don’t Have an Existing Amazon EC2 Account?
- Already Have an Existing Amazon EC2 Account?
- Launching an openSUSE Linux VM Instance
- Setting Up an Elastic IP Address
- Creating an Elastic Block Store Volume
- Opening Ports for iSCSI Communications
- Connecting to the iSCSI Target Virtual Machine via SSH
- Installing the iSCSI Target Software on the openSUSE Linux VM
- Configuring the iSCSI Target Device
- Configuring the iSCSI Initiator Software on a Windows Server
- Formatting the iSCSI Device as NTFS on the Windows Server
- Creating a Dynamic File Services Pair with the Cloud-Based iSCSI Device
- Additional Information
- Setting Up a Merged View for Collaboration Applications: Novell Vibe OnPrem
- Verify that the Application can support using a Microsoft network share to store files
- Understand how the application stores, names, and versions files so useful policies can be created
- Create a Microsoft Share for the application to use
- Configure the application to use the Microsoft Networking share
- Install Dynamic File Services on the Windows Server where the share will be created for the primary path
- Create a pair
- Create a policy
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Using Keyboard Shortcuts
- Quick Reference for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Navigating with Keyboard Shortcuts
- Sample Event Notification Messages
- Documentation Updates
- Legal Notices