Windchill System Administrator's Guide

Creating a Vaulting Policy
Examining Existing Rules
As described in the Windchill Business Administrator’s Guide, the Windchill
Administrator application can be used to establish access control, indexing, and
notification policies for specific Windchill domains. Similarly, you can establish a
file vaulting policy that identifies the vault and folder to which content files are to
be uploaded, based on the domain location and life cycle state of the object with
which they are associated.
Windchill domains can be created in a hierarchical fashion, with some domains
being children of other domains. It is important to note that a domain does not
inherit the vaulting rules of its parent domain. Vaulting rules must be explicitly
defined at each level of a domain hierarchy.
Before creating, modifying, or deleting existing rules, you may want to examine
these rules. Begin by clicking the Vaulting Rules icon on the External Storage
Administrator page. This brings up the Administrative Domains selection
window, from which you must select a domain. Full domain paths are shown in
the Administrative Domains selection window, beginning with a root domain
represented by a slash (/). Click Update to display the Domain Vaulting Rules
window for the selected domain, with the Vaulting tab selected. If you want to
see the vaulting rules already in place for the domain, click Retrieve to get the
information from the database and populate the display with existing rules, each
consisting of a class, a state, and a file vault. The following example shows the
Administering External File Vaults 3-13