Management Actions

In managing user and collaborative storage with File Dynamics, there are cases when you need to retroactively apply policies, rights, attributes, and quotas to existing user storage, or perform some administrative corrective action or operation on a large set of users, groups, or containers.

In File Dynamics, performing these types of operations is collectively referred to as performing a Management Action and is done through the Take Action page.

You can perform a Management Action on an organizational unit, a Group object, or a User object. Management Action operations on a Group object apply to users who are members of the group. Management Action operations on an organizational unit apply to users in the organizational unit, and optionally to all subordinate organizational units.

The Management Actions vary based on whether the selected mode is User, Group, or Container. For example, if Group mode is selected, the Management Action will be performed for collaborative storage processing using Dynamic Template processing. If Collaborative mode is selected, the Management Action will be performed for container based collaborative storage.

File Dynamics analyzes each User object independently, regardless of whether the Management Action is initiated via organizational unit, Group objects, or User objects.