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Your node has a massive amount of storage. Carve it into spaces, share it with your team, and upload your content. Toss out the closet full of hard drives.
Every node has a web app with a management interface that lets you:
The web app has four pages: System, Team, Spaces, and Monitor.
When you first log into the management interface, you arrive at the system section. This section describes how the node's storage is allocated, how the node is connected to your network, who is connected to it, what tasks are running, and what hardware is inside the node.
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Use the System page to:
You can also use the system section to:
The Team page lists all of the user accounts that can access content on the node. When you first log in, this page will contain two accounts: your admin account, and a Creative Support account, which our support staff will use in case you need them to access the node.
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Use the team section to:
You can also use the team section to:
The Spaces page is a file browser that shows you all of your content. When you first log in, the spaces page will be empty. As you upload content to the node, it will appear here.
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Use the spaces section to:
You can also use the spaces section to:
The Monitor page provides a dashboard with gauges and graphs that display system resources over the past 10 minutes. Every second the node collects over 2,000 metrics, that can be presented as hundreds of charts, and is currently monitored by approximately 150 potential alarms. Some of these charts are displayed on this page.
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Use the monitor section to:
creative.space lets you share content with everyone you work with. All you need to do is add them to your team. Your team consists of user accounts, which are assigned a role and can be put into groups.
Your user account is your passport to the node. It determines what content can access, and what kinds of changes you can make to the node. Your account is a system administrator account. You can access everything on the node, from the content stored in it, to the management interface. Most notably, you have the power to grant others access to the node, by creating user accounts for them.
As the system administrator, you decide which spaces each user can access, and what each user can do in the management interface.
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Create a separate account for everyone you work with. Do not share a single user account among different team members.
To create a user account:
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If you have a large team, you can organize each team member into one or more groups. A group is a set of user accounts. A user account can be included in as many or as few groups as you want. Groups make it easy to grant all the user accounts included within them access to the same space.
To create a group:
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Create groups that match your organization's structure. For example, if your organization has a group of editors, a group of animators, a group of VFX artists, and a group of production managers, make one group for each of these roles.
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A space is a portion of the node's storage. It is a versatile way to organize, protect and restrict access to your content.
By default, spaces stretch to fit the content you place within them. However, you can limit how large a space can grow, and you can also limit how small a space can shrink.
Each space can have its own set of access restrictions. By default, no one can access a space except for the person who created it. However, you can always grant users and groups permission to access a space.
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