Quota Enforcement

SpaceGuard SRM Quota Enforcement Features

SpaceGuard SRM is a completely new product, built from the ground up for Windows 2003-XP-2000-NT environments.  SpaceGuard SRM has all the features of SpaceGuard 4.2, and many significant enhancements and features, such as enhanced auto-add quotas, configurable disk quota policies, more notifications, unlimited disk quota levels, a brand-new interface and dramatic improvements in engine performance.

Quota Enforcement

• Automatic home directory matching based on Active Directory
• Quota limits based on percentage of disk/directory size
• Configurable quota policies; save your configuration in a policy for rapid deployment and propagation
• Directory based quotas
• Quota enforcement; the engine can automatically revoke write access priviliges for a user or a group of users when a revoke access limit has been exceeded
• Unlimited disk quota levels; assign multiple limits on a disk quota to gradually escalate notifications and ultimately enforce the disk quota by revoking write access
• Auto-Add quotas; the SpaceGuard SRM engine monitors the file system for changes and automatically applies the appropriate disk quota settings

Quota Enforcement:

The revoke access alarm action can be used to deny write access to the quota's directory for a single user or an entire group of users.  When linked to a certain quota limit, SpaceGuard SRM will revoke the access rights by setting explicit 'Deny' write in the directory's ACL.  When the limit is no longer exceeded, SpaceGuard SRM will revert back to the original access rights and restore the ACL including the owner to its original state.  This also happens when deleting a quota that was previously revoked by SpaceGuard SRM.

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