I think I've discovered a very obvious place for enhancement in NB, but I'm 
not positive.

Right now, the way SSO works, I need to create a storage unit for each machine 
that wants to participate.  However, since I generally don't want these 
machines to act as servers to clients, I have to mark their storage unit "On 
Demand Only".  In order to use this storage unit then, I need to create a new 
class that specifically calls for this storage unit.

It appears to me that the logic for selecting tape robots could be easily 
modified so that MUST_USE_LOCAL_DRIVE "overrides" the on-demand-only of a 
storage unit, such that hosts which have their own storage unit, will use it 
without having to name it, if MUST_USE_LOCAL_DRIVE is set.

Otherwise, we get into a real mess of having to create a lot of classes for 
each server that wants to use SSO, and I'm probably going to have 30-40 of 
them eventually.

Comments?


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