New NetStorage June 5, 2008.

A new free tool avaiable. NetStorage, this program allows you to manage StorageLocation objects without iManager.

After selection a StorageLocation object, the program shows the displayname, location URL and the objects that has the location object in their xTier-LocationList. (a eDir search).

The progam allows you to change the displayname and location URL, and most important you can add and remove objects that point to this StorageLocation. 

Creation of new Storage Locations is also possible, a delete of a storage location object is not possible.

See "read more" for  fixing preformance issue.

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Preformace problem.

The lookup of the objects that point to the selected location object can be very slow.

Adding an extra index on the server(s) can fix this problem.

In console one you can do this the following way.

• Go to one of the server objects.
• open properties of the server object and select indexes tab (see fig 1).
• add index and fill in a name (I prefer the actual attribute name) and select the attribute xTier-LocationList  and select value option at the bottom  (see fig. 2).
• Select apply and wait for the index to come online
• copy the index to the other server(s) or only those you use to administer the netstorage objects.