INVOLVE USERS Efficient storage management shouldn be the sole responsibility of the administrator. Involving users in this process is critical to the success of any storage policy. Encourage proactive user involvement and increase awareness of storage costs. Educate users on storage use and help them to manage their files efficiently, reclaiming space. Give users a sense of responsibility for their storage resource use. Users are guided to their individual Storage Portal web page, by threshold driven e-mail notifications sent by Northern Quota Server.

USER WEB PAGES
The Northern Storage Portal interface is split into two parts, one geared towards the administrator and the other towards the user. The user web pages open the SRM door for your users.

• Display individual web pages to users, showing them how much storage they use.
• Display this usage as a percentage of their storage quota.
• Web pages are specific to each user, providing lists of the ten oldest and ten largest files owned by that specific user.
• Display a list of files stored in the user's home share that are not owned by that user.
• These lists provide suggestions as to what files could be deleted, moved or archived.
  
• Give users the option to request an increase in their disk quota.
• Designed in Windows XP style, to ensure high user recognition.
• Customization options allow you to further increase user recognition by adding your company logo for instance, or even translating displayed texts.
  

ADMIN CONTROL
Northern Storage Portal is firmly focused on making your users part of the SRM solution. Flexible administrative controls offer various ways to achieve this goal.

• Define grace limit rules to automatically handle requests for more disk quota.
• View posted requests for more disk space and with a click, accept or deny the requests.
• Get e-mail or popup notifications upon user requests.
• Receive notifications even when the requests are handled automatically.
• View a history of previous requests to determine which users are taking advantage of the possiblity to increase their quota.
• Use Quota Server's threshold-driven notifications to ensure your users get the right information at the right time.

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