+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Property of the US Government. | | No permission to copy or redistribute this software is given. | | Use of unreleased versions of this software requires the user | | to execute a written test agreement with the VistA Imaging | | Development Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, | | telephone (301) 734-0100. | | | | The Food and Drug Administration classifies this software as | | a medical device. As such, it may not be changed in any way. | | Modifications to this software may result in an adulterated | | medical device under 21CFR820, the use of which is considered | | to be a violation of US Federal Statutes. | | | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ This file holds one record for each "device" in use. For example, if there is a consolidated site with a RAID in place A, a RAID in place B, and an archive in place B, there would be 3 entries in the table. Each storage provider has a type, as well as fields such as Archive, Primary (i.e. "RAID"), etc. These will be used to determine whether a particular configuration is valid at configuration and runtime.
This is a Place. Links the storage provider to its home place. The Storage Place value is used to look up the current write location for the device in the IMAGING SITE PARAMETER file (#2006.1).
DESCRIPTION: Since many data records may be linked to a storage provider, it is not safe to delete them. However, the storage provider can be deactivated (logically deleted) by setting this flag to false ("0"), so that it won't be
DESCRIPTION: If a storage provider is still available for read operations, but should not be written to, this flag can be set to false ("0"). Note that this sits at a level higher than a specific share. Existing mechanisms to take a
particular share offline, while leaving the others available for write, will still work.