Setup guide

You must enter a value for each attribute. See the following table for a description of the valid values for

each attribute.

DescriptionAttribute

Identifies the name of the group. Create a group name of your choosing. Each group name

must be unique.

Use the value of this attribute in a host-to-host rule to map all members of the group to the

same storage mount point.

group name

Identifies the name of a host that is in the group.host name

This attribute is optional. It allows you to link all of the hosts in the group to a single operating

system. You can then use a platform rule to map all the hosts in a group to the same mount

point. The os attribute is restricted to the following values: Linux, Windows NT, and MacOSX.

Example:

<host_name=“flame1”>

<host_name=“inferno1”>

<host_name=“smoke1”>

</group>

<host_name=“lustre1”>

<host_name=“lustre2”>

<host_name=“lustre3”>

</group>

After you have defined a group, you can use the host/path rule to map all the hosts in the group to the same

path by using the group name for either the src_host or dst_host attribute value.

In the following example, all hosts in the Lustre_Windows_Stations group map the Autodesk_Stations storage

path to N:\myclips, a mount point they all share:

<map src_host=“Autodesk_Stations” src_path=“/CXFS1/myclips”

dst_host=“Lustre_Windows_Stations” dst_path=“N:\myclips”>

You can also use a platform rule to map all the hosts in a group to the same destination path based on the

operating system they all run.

In the following example, the platform rule is used to map all Windows users to N:\ when translating /usr/

from a Linux system:

<map src_os=“Linux” src_path=“/usr/”

dst_os=“WindowsNT” dst_path=“N:\”>

Creating a Rule for a Group of Hosts Running on the Same Operating System

The platform rule is similar to the group rule in that the rule is applied to all hosts running the same operating

system.

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