Modifying active ILM policy by using GUI

You can use the Files > Information Lifecycle page in the GUI to create and manage the ILM policies.

Perform the following steps to create and apply an ILM policy:
  1. Go to Files > Information Lifecycle page in the IBM Storage Scale GUI.
  2. Click Active Policy.
  3. In the File System field, select the file system for which you need to modify the active policy.
  4. Review the policy details. The available rules are listed on the left side of the view and the selected rule details is displayed on the right side of the page.
  5. Click Add Rule to add new rules to the policy. The Add Rule window appears.
  6. In the Add Rule window, specify the rule name and rule type. The following rule types can be selected:
    • Migration
    • Migration to external pool
    • Placement
    • Compression
    • Migration and compression
    • Deletion
    • Exclude
    • Encryption
    • Encryption specification
    • Encryption exclude
    • External pool
  7. Click Add to add the rule to the policy. The rule is added to the policy.
  8. Select the rule from the list of rules that are added to the policy. The rule definition appears on the right pane.
  9. Modify the default values of the rule based on the requirement.
  10. Click Apply Changes after you make the required changes.
  11. To remove a rule from an active policy, select the rule form the list of rules that are configured for the policy, and clear the Enable checkbox from the right pane. Make sure that you click Apply Changes whenever you update rules of a policy.
  12. Click Run Policy if you want to run the policy irrespective of the conditions specified in the rules of the policy. Usually, the system runs the policy when the conditions mentioned in the rules are met. For example, migration starts when the thresholds that are defined in the migration rule is reached.