Expert Administration Tasks

Expert administration tasks include creating new attributes to describe storage features, and designing and creating new templates and capabilities.

The storage administrator's role requires the following knowledge of ISP:

• Knowledge of basic and advanced administration tasks, see Basic Administration Tasks and Advanced Administration Tasks.
• Familiarity with the ISP rule specification language, and how to use it to write rules, capabilities and templates.
• How to use the VEA or the command-line utilities to perform your tasks. You can use any suitable text editor to create template definition files. The command-line utilities are primarily intended for use in administration scripts, but can also be used to compile and install templates and capabilities as illustrated in Creating Templates and Capabilities.

Creating Templates and Capabilities



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Advanced storage administration tasks are described in the following chapters:

• Administering Volume Templates and Other Configuration Elements
• Using Capabilities, Templates and Rules
• ISP Language Definition