Novell Storage Manager™

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Novell Storage Manager for eDirectory Feature Matrix

General 1.2.1 2.0 2.5
Full storage lifecycle storage management event and policy driven solution
Advanced multiple queue event processing system
Real time directory service event driven system for provisioning, modifying and managing network file system
NetWare Server eDirectory Event Monitor
OES &SUSE Linux Server eDirectory Event Monitor*
Delegate copy task to Agent Servers
Delegate all copy operations to Agent Servers to speed up operation and decrease bandwidth usage
OES Linux NSM Agent
NSM Soft Appliance Engine for OES Linux
Full system fault tolerance State Machine Architecture
User Storage Management 1.21 2.0 2.5
Provision NetWare user home directory
Provision OES Linux user home directory (NSS)
Provision OES Linux user home directory – ext2/3 & Reiser
Rename, Move Cleanup NetWare user home directory
Rename, Move Cleanup OES Linux user home directory – NSS
Rename, Move, Cleanup OES Linux user home directory – ext2/3 & Reiser
Vault User home directory – NetWare & OES Linux - NSS
Vault User home directory –OES Linux – ext2/3 & Reiser
Provision Auxiliary User Storage Locations NW & OES Linux (NSS, ext2/3 & Reiser)
Rename, Move Cleanup Auxiliary User Storage Locations NW & OES Linux (NSS, ext2/3 & Reiser)
Catalog & Manage existing NetWare user home directory
Catalog & Manage existing OES Linux user home directory - NSS
Catalog & Manage existing OES Linux user home directory – ext2/3 & Reiser
Review, reassign or vault employee data when an employee leaves an organization
Vault & Groom NetWare & OES Linux user home directory - NSS
Vault & Groom OES Linux user home directory – ext2/3 & Reiser
Groom user’s storage before moving to vault location when user is removed from eDirectory.
Assign, update and manage user directory storage quotas
Personal storage space file system trustee assignment
Recover File System Trustee assignments
Recover Home Directory Attribute
Set attribute flags on home directories
Personal storage load balancing, multi-server distribution and space balancing
Assign user storage template of files and folders to prepare a personal home directory structure
Reapply storage template as template files and folders are modified
Populate Home Directory Attribute for users with storage but attribute is not populated
User storage migration transparent and seamless to the user
Automated user storage migration, triggered by moving user object in the directory.
Automated User Data Migration for server consolidation
Collaborative Storage Management 1.21 2.0 2.5
Create collaborative storage based on eDirectory Groups NetWare
Create collaborative storage based on eDirectory Groups OES Linux - NSS
Create collaborative storage based on eDirectory Groups - ext2/3 & Reiser
Backfill collaborative storage for multiple eDirectory Groups – NSS, ext2/3 & Reiser
Create collaborative storage based on eDirectory Containers (Os & OUs) OES Linux & NetWare
Apply NSM Vault Rules to move files to vault location
Move deleted collaborative folders to a given vault location.
Enhanced Backfill operations applied to collaborative storage (Recover Attributes, Restore Trustees, Quota, Template)
Assign, update and manage collaborative directory storage quotas
Collaborative storage space file system trustee assignment
Collaborative storage load balancing, multi-server distribution and space balancing for
Assign collaborative storage template of files and folders to prepare collaborative storage structure
NetStorage integration via automatic provision & management of NetStorage objects
Automated Collaborative Storage Data Migration to assist in server consolidation
Additional Features 1.21 2.0 2.5
NSM Janitor Process to enhance
NSM Action Objects
Enhanced Identity Manager Integration using NSM Action Objects
Novell Identity Manager Support
LDAP Support
LDIF Support
Enhanced Data Migration subsystem
Data consistency reports – Allowing administrators to discover current problems with existing user storage and ability to solve storage problems
Administrator Dashboard providing quick access to all of the reports, statistics and data managed by Novell Storage Manager
Executive Dashboard providing management with a Web location to view the current state of user-directory storage on the network
User Storage Status Indicators illustrates what percentage of a user's directory quota is in use
File and Directory Security Analysis quickly see who has rights to a file or directory, indicating how rights were derived/obtained
Help desk quota management without assigning file system rights to help desk
Storage system health check monitoring
Enhanced NSM Admin program – Operations quickly reachable
Fined grained control of NSM policies to provide flexible options for blocking NSM Policy inheritance
Creates Orphaned Home Directory Eligible Report
User Storage Report to assist in developing quotas for user storage
Support for extended characters in Novell eDirectory object names