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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 2, 2022

RELATED IDEAS

GUI should schedule daily policy runs

Customers often needs to run a set of policies on filesystems as daily maintenance. F.ex.:

* Compress files

* Migrate new files from primary to secondary pool

* Premigrate data to tape/cloud/external pool, so that when a capacity-based trigger can work faster

* Make new files immutable

.. and much more. This is normally solved by having a set of policy scripts, and running them one by one via "cron" or similar. It would be much better if we could use the ILM GUI to create these rules in the installed policy, and then have a tickbox for each file system to say that the GUI  should execute "mmapplypolicy <fsname>" daily (at a specific time).

 

Additionally this could be made much more advanced, like the snapshotting GUI, where we have separate policies that can be attached to a filesystem, and scheduled to run repeatedly. But that would likely be much more work than enabling a simple "exec mmapplypolicy <fsname>" once a day.

Idea priority Medium

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