StorageServer
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The StorageServer icon is displayed in the Resources pane when you select a Hardware or “Satellite” System in the Hardware pane. You can double-click this icon to display the StorageServer settings. This dialog box lists all of the available disks or partitions on the selected Hardware System.
Administrator access level only!
Each Hardware System has a Disk Storage resource, comprising two parts:
•Storage Sets: To configure the Storage Sets
•Disk Monitor: To monitor disk usage
What are Storage Sets?
A storage set is a collection of one or more disks or shared volumes that are kept synchronized. When the Apogee System writes a file to a storage set, the file is copied to all disks or volumes which belong to that set. This provides system redundancy: If any disk or volume in a set fails, the Apogee System notifies you and disables the failed disk/volume. This disk/volume will not be used again until you enable it. When you do this, the disk is again synchronized with the other disks/volumes in the set. Whenever Apogee needs a file, it searches through every enabled disk in the set until one returns the required file. Normally, the first disk will return the file, so there is very little impact on performance.
If you add a disk or volume to a storage set, it is immediately synchronized with the other disks/volumes in the set.
Each storage set you define can handle only one of the following data types:
•Temporary data
•System files and resources
•PDF and Postscript files
•Raster files
You can define multiple storage sets to handle the same type of data. This increases the total disk capacity, and allows Apogee to alternately write data to each of the storage sets in turn (for example, writing C, M, Y, K separations to different sets).
Disk Storage Settings
The Disk Storage dialog box comprises two tabs which allow you to configure storage sets and monitor disk usage.
Storage Sets
This tab shows all storage sets, the disks or volumes in each set, and the kind of files it can receive. You can add, edit and delete storage sets using the buttons below the list (see “To create a new storage set”).
Storage Set
The name of the disk or volume which contains the storage set.
Sys
A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store system data only.
Temp
A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store temporary or scratch data only.
PDF
A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store PDF data only.
Raster
A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store raster data only.
New button
Click this button to create a new Storage Set, as described in “To create a new storage set”.
Edit button
Click this button to access the Storage Set Editor, where you can view or modify the setup of the selected storage set.
Delete button
Click this button to delete the selected Storage Set. Note that you cannot delete a Storage Set unless there is an alternative Storage Set available to take over the storage of each type of data held in the Storage Set.
Storage Set Editor
This dialog box allows you to view or modify the setup of the selected storage set. You can add and edit storage sets using the buttons below the list (see “To create a new storage set”).
Files to store
Select the necessary check boxes to indicate which data can be stored on the disk.
Apogee Prepress system data and resources
This data is essential to keep Apogee active. The data also includes resources such as fonts, halftone screens or calibration curves.
Apogee Prepress temporary data
Various system components and Task Processors need this data to be able to write during their processing tasks.
PDF and Postscript files
These are the files generated by the Normalizer and stored in the Page Store.
Raster files
These are the high-resolution raster files that need to be sent to the output devices. Generally, you store these files on any Hardware System that hosts the Render Task Processor.
CAUTION: Once Apogee has some data stored on the disk, you can no longer clear the check box corresponding to this data type. The check box will be activated only when there is no longer any Apogee data left on the disk.
If you clear the check box while Apogee is writing to the disk, you will get a warning dialog box telling you that the check box has been selected again.
If you clear the check box while Apogee is writing to the disk, you will get a warning dialog box telling you that the check box has been selected again.
To create a new storage set
1 From the Disk Storage dialog box, select the Storage Sets tab.
2 Double-click a storage set entry, or select it and click the Edit button.
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This opens the Storage Set Editor.
You will also see a set of check boxes at the top of the dialog box, and a set of buttons at the bottom of the dialog box.
3 Click the New button.
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A Select Disk dialog box is displayed.
4 Select a local disk or enter a UNC shared volume name, and click OK.
The dialog box is closed. The new storage set appears in the list.
To edit a storage set
1 From the Disk Storage dialog box, select the Storage Sets tab.
2 Double-click a storage set entry, or select it and click the Edit button.
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This opens the Storage Set Editor.
You will also see a set of check boxes at the top of the dialog box, and a set of buttons at the bottom of the dialog box.
3 Select the local disk or shared volume, and click the Edit button.
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A Select Disk dialog box is displayed.
4 Select a different local disk or enter a UNC shared volume name, and click OK.
The dialog box is closed. The updated storage set appears in the list.
5 Select the file types you want to store on the storage set by clicking the appropriate check boxes.
6 Click Enable, and then click OK.
The Storage Set Editor is closed. Your new settings are displayed in the Disk Storage dialog box.
To delete a storage set
1 From the Disk Storage dialog box, select the Storage Sets tab
2 Double-click a storage set entry, or select it and click the Edit button.
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This opens the Storage Set Editor.
You will also see a set of check boxes at the top of the dialog box, and a set of buttons at the bottom of the dialog box.
3 Check that an alternate storage set is available to take over storage of the data from the set you are going to delete.
4 Select a storage set, and click the Delete button.
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A confirmation dialog box is displayed.
5 Click OK to confirm deletion.
NOTE: You cannot delete a storage set unless there is an alternate storage set available to take over the storage of each type of data.
Disk Monitor
This tab monitors the disk usage for all local disks and shared volumes.
Disk or Shared Volume
Lists the disks or shared volumes you are using.
Capacity
Displays the formatted capacity of the disk.
Sys
A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store system data.
Temp
A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store temporary or scratch data.
PDF
A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store PDF data.
Raster
A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store raster data.
SQL
Indicates on which disk the database is installed.
Amount Used
Indicates the amount of disk space (capacity) used by Apogee. For each disk, a bar displays the used amount in a solid color. For disks that are used for other purposes, the color is slightly faded out.
The bar of the largest disk fills the column width. The other bars are scaled proportionally.
The color of the bar changes when the used amount exceeds a certain limit:
•Green: There is sufficient storage space left.
•Orange: The warning level has been reached.
•Red: The critical level has been exceeded.
NOTE: The warning and critical levels are shown on the bar by two small markers. The first marker is the warning level: the second marker is the critical level.
Free
The Free column shows the free disk capacity in absolute numbers and percentages.
Status
Indicates the status of the disk or shared volume.
Edit button
Click this button to access the Watermarks Editor, where you can specify free disk space warning and critical levels.
Enable button
Select a Disk or Shared Volume, and click the Enable button to allow this disk or volume to be used by Apogee.
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