Adding a volume

You need to configure at least one profile and at least one volume for IMiS/ARChive to become operational. You should first create and configure a profile (see Adding a profile for more details) and then start configuring volumes to bind them to the created profile.

Select volume section
In this section administrator can ADD, DELETE or MODIFY existing volumes. Each volume has:

ID - is assigned by the IMiS/ARChive at "Activate" action and is unique
Name - which defines volumes name and can be something an administrator can logically connect to a certain level of a certain profile. You can also use >description< field. This field in MANDATORY.
Description - User friendly (longer) description of the volume and its purpose (optional)

		ADD button opens a form which is used to add a new volume to the list. Administrator should first create a logical DEFINITION (mount point) on UNIX filesystem and a profile.
		DELETE button tags currently selected volume for deletion from the volumes list. Volume is actually deleted when at "ACTIVATE" action is preformed. Volume can be deleted only if its empty.
		EDIT button allows modifications on the currently selected volume. When a volume is selected its in READ-ONLY mode. Only after EDIT button is pressed, user can modify attributes on the selected volume. Mode can be observed in Volume details section: READ-ONLY mode EDIT mode

QUICK EXAMPLE:

1) Press ADD button. This screen should appear (default name can differ case to case):

When volume is first created its ID is unassigned. It gets this ID when its committed into server configuration (ACTIVATE changes).

2) Enter a name which best describes volume and its position in HSM hierarchy

3) Enter description which further extends name description of volume. This field is OPTIONAL.

4) Select VOLUME position in HSM hierarchy. That is, select a profile and profile's level to which this volume should be assigned to. By default volume gets assigned to the first level of the first profile (in our case profile > Documents < , > Level 1 <).

5) Select STORE TYPE. IMiS/ARChive comes with VOLUME DRIVERS which are used to handle different storage devices. By default IMiS/ARChive HARD DRIVE storage library is used to drive created volume.

6) Enter volume DEFINITION. This parameter is volume's MOUNT POINT on FILESYSTEM (or other mount def. in case of other storage devices). Administrator MUST first create this mount point on filesystem. Only after that, volume can be successfully used. IMiS/ARChive does not CREATE a mount point definition, if it does not exists (example: /iarc/vol/docs/vol0)

7) Define size of the volume. IMiS/ARChive does not check physical space on the device. It tries to store objects the set watermark and them marks volume as FULL. Enter size in KILOBYTES (eg: 2000 means 2MB)

8) Used space is there to inform administrator on volumes USED capacity and is informational.

9) Press SUBMIT button to submit changes to the volume. With this action a volume is tagged to be added into volume list when administrator ACTIVATES changes that he has made in this administration session.

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