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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. For information about APEX File Storage Services, see the Dell Technologies APEX File Storage Services Administration Guide.
- Scale-out NAS overviewThe scale-out NAS storage platform combines modular hardware with unified software to harness unstructured data. The OneFS operating system powers the platform to deliver a scalable pool of storage with a global namespace.
- Where to get help
- 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
- 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
  - SmartQuotas overviewThe SmartQuotas module is an optional quota-management tool that monitors and enforces administrator-defined storage limits. Using accounting and enforcement quota limits, reporting capabilities, and automated notifications, SmartQuotas manages storage use, monitors disk storage, and issues alerts when disk-storage limits are exceeded.
  - Quota typesOneFS uses the concept of quota types as the fundamental organizational unit of storage quotas. Storage quotas comprise a set of resources and an accounting of each resource type for that set. Storage quotas are also called storage domains.
  - Default quota typeDefault quotas automatically create other quotas for users, groups, or immediate subdirectories in a specified directory.
  - Usage accounting and limits Storage quotas can perform two functions: they monitor storage space through usage accounting and they manage storage space through enforcement limits.
  - Disk-usage calculationsFor each quota that you configure, you can specify whether physical or logical space is included in future disk usage calculations.
  - Quota notificationsQuota notifications are generated for enforcement quotas, providing users with information when a quota violation occurs. Reminders are sent periodically while the condition persists.
  - Quota notification rulesYou can write quota notification rules to generate alerts that are triggered by event thresholds.
  - Quota reportsThe OneFS SmartQuotas module provides reporting options that enable administrators to manage cluster resources and analyze usage statistics.
  - Creating quotasYou can create two types of storage quotas to monitor data: accounting quotas and enforcement quotas. Storage quota limits and restrictions can apply to specific users, groups, or directories.
  - Managing quotasYou can modify the configured values of a storage quota, and you can enable or disable a quota. You can also create quota limits and restrictions that apply to specific users, groups, or directories.
  - Managing quota notificationsQuota notifications can be enabled or disabled, modified, and deleted.
  - Email quota notification messagesIf email notifications for exceeded quotas are enabled, you can customize PowerScale templates for email notifications or create your own.
  - Managing quota reportsYou can configure and schedule reports to help you monitor, track, and analyze storage use on a PowerScale cluster.
  - Basic quota settingsWhen you create a storage quota, the following attributes must be defined, at a minimum. When you specify usage limits, additional options are available for defining the quota.
  - Advisory limit quota notification rules settingsYou can configure custom quota notification rules for advisory limits for a quota. These settings are available when you select the option to use custom notification rules.
  - Soft limit quota notification rules settingsYou can configure custom soft limit notification rules for a quota. These settings are available when you select the option to use custom notification rules.
  - Hard limit quota notification rules settingsYou can configure custom quota notification rules for hard limits for a quota. These settings are available when you select the option to use custom notification rules.
  - Limit notification settingsEnforcement quotas support the following notification settings for each threshold type. A quota can use only one of these settings.
  - Quota report settingsYou can configure quota report settings that track disk usage. These settings determine whether and when scheduled reports are generated, and where and how reports are stored. When the maximum number of reports are stored, the system deletes the oldest reports to make space for new reports as they are generated.
- Storage pools
- Pool-based tree reporting in FSAnalyze (FSA)
- Job management
- Networking
- Partitioned Performance Monitoring
- 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.
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