•Changes to POSIX UIDs and GIDs, POSIX permissions, and object owners are not allowed for objects under retention
•Only add operations are allowed with custom metadata for objects under retention
Once the namespace exists, you can change these settings at any time.
![]() |
Roles: To view retention-related settings for a namespace, you need the monitor, administrator, or compliance role. To change these settings for a namespace, you need the compliance role. |
To change retention-related settings for a namespace:
1.In the top-level menu in the Tenant Management Console, click Namespaces.
2.In the list of namespaces, click the name of the namespace you want.
3.In the row of tabs below the namespace name, click Policies.
4.On the left side of the Policies panel, click Retention.
5.In the Retention Options section in the Retention panel:
oOptionally, select (to allow) or deselect (to disallow) Allow ownership and POSIX permission changes for objects under retention.
oOptionally, change the custom metadata setting:
–To allow the addition, deletion, and replacement of custom metadata for objects under retention, select Add, delete, and replace.
–To allow only the addition of custom metadata for objects under retention, select Add only.
–To disallow all custom metadata operations for objects under retention, select None.
6.Click Update Settings in the Retention Options section.
7.Optionally, in the Event-based Retention section in the Retention panel, you can set the Minimum Retention after Initial Unspecified value. Similar to specifying an offset, you can specify this value as numbers of years, months, and/or days. The retention set on Initial Unspecified objects in the namespace must be greater than the Minimum Retention after Initial Unspecified value.
8.Click Update Settings in the Event-based Retention section.
For more information about:
•POSIX UIDs, GIDs, and permissions, see Default POSIX UID, GID, and permissions
•Ownership and permission changes for objects under retention, see Ownership and permission changes for objects under retention
•Custom metadata handling, see Custom metadata operations for objects under retention
•Ownership, permissions, and custom metadata in general, see Using a Namespace
•Specifying retention settings, see Specifying retention settings
© 2015, 2020 Hitachi Vantara LLC. All rights reserved.