Novell IFOLDER 3.7 - SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, Administration Manual

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Planning iFolder Services
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Planning iFolder Services
This section discusses the planning considerations for providing Novell
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Open Enterprise Server (OES) 2.0 Linux.
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Section 2.1, “Security Considerations,” on page 25
Š Section 2.2, “Server Workload Considerations,” on page 25
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Section 2.3, “Naming Conventions for Usernames and Passwords,” on page 26
Š Section 2.4, “Admin User Considerations,” on page 27
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Section 2.5, “iFolder User Account Considerations,” on page 29
Š Section 2.6, “iFolders Data and Synchronization Considerations,” on page 31
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Section 2.7, “Management Tools,” on page 33
2.1 Security Considerations
For information about planning security for your iFolder 3. x system, see the OES 2 SP1 Linux:
Novell iFolder 3.7 Security Administration Guide .
2.2 Server Workload Considerations
The iFolder 3.7 enterprise server supports a complex usage model where each user can own multiple
iFolders and participate in iFolders owned by other users. Instead of a single user working from
different workstations at different times, multiple users can be concurrently modifying files and
synchronizing them. Whenever a user adds a new member to an iFolder, the workload on the server
can increase almost as much as if you added another user to the system.
iFolder 3.7 provides you multi-server and multi-volume support to enhance the storage capability of
it’s servers. Multi-Volume feature is exempt from the single iFolder per-volume restriction, so it
enables you to move the data across multiple volume available on a single server. With the Web
Admin console, you can add multiple mount points to a single server to increase the effective space
available. The iFolder server also has the capability to configure the volume on which a particular
iFolder needs to be created through the Web Admin console.
Multi-server support is another key feature in iFolder 3.7 that makes server workload management
significantly easier for administrators. In the past, an iFolder domain was dedicated to a single
server that limited the number of users and data transfer bandwidth. With multi-server support,
iFolder 3.7 has the capability to add more than one server to a single iFolder domain, so enterprise
provisioning is effectively managed and hosting enterprise data is scaled up.
You can even set user account quotas to control the maximum storage space consumed by a user’s
iFolders on the server. The actual bandwidth usage for each iFolder depends on the following:
Š The number of members subscribed to the iFolder.
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The number of computers actively sharing the iFolder.
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How much data is stored in the iFolder.
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The actual and average size of files in the iFolder.