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SpaceGuard SRM is a proven disk quota management solution allowing systems administrators to regulate the available disk space for end-users effectively. The solution guarantees the reliability and availability of file servers and ensures that their capacity is not used up unnecessarily. SpaceGuard SRM will provide automatic notification when the threshold value for the available disk space is exceeded, provide a warning to users, temporarily block access to disks and filter files of a particular type.

SpaceGuard SRM offers network administrators a convenient way of setting and enforcing disk space quotas to achieve considerable time and cost efficiencies. This will result in reducing the frequency with which new servers and backup hard drives must be purchased because of increasing of storage capacity use. SpaceGuard SRM also considerably reduces the amount of time that network administrators normally have to spend reclaiming disk capacity consumed by end-users. After all, it doesn’t matter how much disk space is available; eventually end-users will utilize all the disk space available to them.

SpaceGuard SRM provides administrators with an API they can use to automate the configuration. Among other things, administrators can have external applications automatically set quotas on the basis of certain attributes e.g., cost centers, without their intervention and without the need to launch SpaceGuard SRM’s management console.

Active Directory integration

SpaceGuard SRM saves time and configuration hassle by automatically reading information from the Active Directory. You can also include any Active Directory attribute in the notifications, such as telephone number or address information.

Integration with other applications

SpaceGuard SRM offers a fully automated interface allowing administrators to manage quotas with an external application. If the organization uses an application to manage the resource settings for network users, this can be integrated seamlessly with SpaceGuard SRM. SpaceGuard SRM is unique in offering this ability.

Set Directory Quotas

SpaceGuard SRM offers numerous possibilities to regulate directory quotas, such as:

Auto-Add quotas: An Auto-Add disk quota removes the need to add a disk quota each time a directory is added. Each time a directory is created, inside a specified directory, a quota is set on using a predefined policy or custom sizes/limits. The SpaceGuard SRM service continuously scans the local computer's file system for directory changes. If a new subfolder is created under the branch where the Auto-Add disk quota is active, SpaceGuard SRM automatically creates a new quota according to the Auto-Add policy. Also, whenever subfolders under an Auto-Add quota root are removed, the related quota is automatically removed.

Quota enforcement: The revoke access alert 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 occurs when deleting a quota that was previously revoked by SpaceGuard SRM.

Unlimited quota levels: Each disk quota can have one or more limits. A limit is a percentage based on the disk quota size. For example if you have a fixed disk quota size of 50MB and you define a limit of 100% and assign an alert, the alert will be executed when the 50MB has been exceeded. This way, you can assign multiple limits to a single quota, for instance:
Fixed disk quota size, 50MB: Limit 1: 80%, send a popup to the user assigned to the quota (executed at 40MB).
Limit 2: 90%, send a popup to the administrator (executed at 45MB).
Limit 3: 100%, revoke the write access of the user assigned to the quota (executed at 50MB).

SmartQuota Technology SpaceGuard SRM is SmartQuota enabled which allows for rapid deployment and mass quota reconfiguration. Using SmartQuota technology, you can quickly add new quota limits to all existing quotas based on a percentage of the current limits. If for instance company policy changes and users are allowed to store 25% more on their home directories, simply select all quotas and change the default revoke access limit from 100% to 125%. All other settings will be applied automatically in the background.

User Alerting

SpaceGuard SRM supports a wide range of notifications and actions. You can send popup messages, email, both SMTP and Exchange MAPI are supported, Pager/SMS messages with global provider coverage and built-in modem connection software. SpaceGuard SRM can also write entries to the Windows event log, and execute command line actions. Each alarm action can access quota-related keywords to include quota status information.

File Extension Blocking

SpaceGuard offers the ability to block files before they reach your disk (mp3, wav, exe). This prevents unwanted programs from being installed or unwanted media from being stored.