What happens if a repo or user SRU balance is negative?
Accounting information is sent from HPSS to NIM once daily (in the early morning, Pacific Time). At this time actions are taken if a repo or user SRU balance is negative. If a repo runs out of SRUs all login names associated with it are marked as restricted for that repository (see repository user statuses). Login names are “HPSS restricted” if all of the repos associated with this login name are restricted (see machine user statuses). HPSS restricted login names are able to read data from HPSS but cannot write any data to HPSS. Likewise, when a login name goes over its individual “allowed percent” in a given repo, that (login, repo) pair is marked as restricted. The login name is HPSS restricted only if the (login, repo) repository user status is restricted for each repo associated with this login name. HPSS repos that are negative continue to incur SRU charges every day for each member that has HPSS files or I/O activity. This is because there is a daily charge for files stored withi
