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OneFS Web Administration Guide
OneFS Event Reference Guide

OneFS Web Administration GuideThe OneFS Web Administration Guide describes how to activate licenses, configure network interfaces, manage the file system, provision block storage, run system jobs, protect data, back up the cluster, set up storage pools, establish quotas, secure access, migrate data, integrate with other applications, and monitor PowerScale clusters.
- About this guideThis guide describes how the PowerScale OneFS web administration interface provides access to cluster configuration, management, and monitoring functionality.
- Scale-out NAS overviewThe scale-out NAS storage platform combines modular hardware with unified software to harness unstructured data. Powered by the OneFS operating system, a cluster delivers a scalable pool of storage with a global namespace.
- Where to go for support This topic contains resources for getting answers to questions about PowerScale products.
- PowerScale scale-out NASPowerScale OneFS combines the three layers of storage architecture—file system, volume manager, and data protection—into a scale-out NAS cluster.
- General cluster administration
- Access zones
- Authentication
- Administrative roles and privileges
- Identity management
  - Identity management overview In environments with several different types of directory services, OneFS maps the users and groups from the separate services to provide a single unified identity on a cluster and uniform access control to files and directories, regardless of the incoming protocol. This process is called identity mapping.
  - Identity typesOneFS supports three primary identity types, each of which you can store directly on the file system. Identity types are user identifier and group identifier for UNIX, and security identifier for Windows.
  - Access tokensAn access token is created when the user first makes a request for access.
  - Access token generationFor most protocols, the access token is generated from the username or from the authorization data that is retrieved during authentication.
  - Managing ID mappingsYou can create, modify, and delete identity mappings and configure ID mapping settings.
  - Managing user identities You can manage user identities by creating user-mapping rules.
- Home directoriesWhen you create a local user, OneFS automatically creates a home directory for the user.
- Data access controlOneFS supports two types of permissions data on files and directories that control who has access: Windows-style access control lists (ACLs) and POSIX mode bits (UNIX permissions).
- File sharingYou can access files and directories using SMB for Windows file sharing, NFS for Unix file sharing, secure shell (SSH), FTP, and HTTP.
- File filteringFile filtering enables you to allow or deny file writes based on file type.
- Auditing
- Snapshots
- Deduplication with SmartDedupe
- Data replication with SyncIQ
- Data layout with FlexProtect
- NDMP backup
- File retention with SmartLock
- Protection domains
- Data-at-rest encryption
- S3 Support
- SmartQuotas
- Storage pools
- Pool-based tree reporting in FSAnalyze (FSA)
- Job management
- Networking
- Partitioned Performance Performing for NFS
- Antivirus
- File system explorer
OneFS Event Reference Guide

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OneFS Web Administration GuideThe OneFS Web Administration Guide describes how to activate licenses, configure network interfaces, manage the file system, provision block storage, run system jobs, protect data, back up the cluster, set up storage pools, establish quotas, secure access, migrate data, integrate with other applications, and monitor PowerScale clusters.
Identity management

Identity management