Improvements in block allocation algorithm leading to reduced disk fragmentation. For more information, see Delayed Block Allocation in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.
A new media format has been introduced beginning with OES 2015 SP1 to improve the scan time of trustee information for NURM, NFARM, and TrusteeInfo.xml. For more information, see Trustee Index Media in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.
Commands are added for the following:
Update the NSS media for Trustee Index support. For more information on Trustee Index commands, see Trustee Index Media in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.
Force the Trustee Index support upgrade in a mixed-node cluster using /ForceMedia switch. For more information on the /ForceMedia switch, see Trustee Index Media in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.
Automatically upgrades the NSS32 and NSS64 pools to latest pool media. For more information, see Automatic Pool Media Upgrade Commands in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.
Enable or disable the delayed block allocation at the server level. For more information, see Delayed Block Allocation Commands in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.
A new administrative tool has been introduced beginning with OES 2015 SP1 for performing purge operation on files deleted by eDirectory and AD users.
For more information, see sputil in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.
NURM provides the following enhancements and changes in OES 2015 SP1:
Contextless login: A new feature has been added to disable the contextless login for eDirectory users.
Refreshing user maps: If the mappings have changed since the time a user map was created, they could be refreshed using the same conditions that were used while creating them.
Two way synchronization of rights: Using the user-rights-map utility, rights could be synched between Active Directory and eDirectory.
Secure LDAP port to connect to the AD server: You can now use SSL to connect securely to an AD server. Some of the standard LDAP ports for Active Directory are 389, 636, 3268, and 3269.
Map rights using multiple user maps: You can now select multiple user maps and apply rights on the selected volume.
Pagination and filtering: When the number of records to be displayed are huge, they are paginated, and each page holds up to 1000 records. The filter option works based on records in all the pages.
For more information, see NURM (OES User Rights Management) in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS AD Administration Guide.
Salvage and Purge Support for Active Directory and eDirectory Users: Beginning with OES 2015 SP1, Active Directory and eDirectory users can perform salvage and purge operation. eDirectory users can perform salvage and purge operations through CIFS using NFARM utility without AD integration. For more information, see Salvage and Purge in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS AD Administration Guide.
NSS can be managed in a multi-forest environment.