Setting up End-User Access
Setting up the Grace Period for a Volume Quota
Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide
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Setting up the Grace Period for a Volume Quota
You can set up a limit on the amount of space available to your users or groups.
This limit can be set as a soft quota and hard quota. When the users reach their
"soft quota", a warning is issued and the grace period begins. Users then have the
amount of time set in the grace period to either reduce the amount of spaced used
by deleting files, or have the quota increased. If the amount of space is not
reduced before the grace period expires or the user reaches the hard quota, the
user is automatically denied write access to the volume.
NOTE
Before you create quotas for a user or group, make sure that you set up the
Warn
For
time for each volume from the
Filesystem Quota
page. The
Warn For
time only
affects individual quota that was created after the
Warn For
time was set.
To set up the grace period for a volume:
STEP 1
From the
Manager Menu
, click
Access
Quota
.
The
Filesystem Quota
page appears.
STEP 2
To set up the grace period, and if the soft limit set for the user or group is still
exceeded, the user or group is denied write access, enter the time period in the
Warn for <time period> before denying access
field. Enter the number in the first
part of the field, and the time unit in the second part of the field. For example, to
