Windchill System Administrator's Guide

Windchill External Storage Administrator
In order to implement file vaulting, you use the Vault Configuration window to
define the following items:
• Site (also known as cluster) -- A group of hosts with one URL that can be
accessed independently but also as a single unit. The site of interest in file
vaulting is the automatically generated master site, which has the default
name Master.
• Host -- a system on your network that can be used to store content files
• Vault -- a logical container for folders
• Folder -- a representation of a physical storage location on a host system
• Mount -- a folder is associated with a host by a mount
You display the Vault Configuration window by clicking Vault Configuration
in the External Storage Administrator window, which you access from the
Windchill home. The following figure shows the Vault Configuration window:
The left panel of the Vault Configuration window displays a tree view of the site
object, which includes all of the hosts, vaults, and folders that have been defined
for the site. The Vault Configuration window shows icons only for the site to
which you are connected and for Content Replication replica sites. The content of
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