- Add a Robinhood Policy Engine server

# Add a Robinhood Policy Engine server

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The Robinhood policy engine can be used to automate HSM activities. Each instance of Robinhood and its RDBMS supports a single file system. A single server can support multiple instances of Robinhood. The following procedure adds a Robinhood server, however configuring policies are not discussed herein. See the implementation guide Hierarchical Storage Management Configuration Guide for more information.

To add a Robinhood policy engine server, perform the steps under Add one or more servers. In that procedure, when selecting the server profile, select Robinhood Policy Engine Server. For an overview, see Configuring and using Hierarchical Storage Management.

## Creating Policies

Robinhood lets an superuser create file-archiving policies based on the file class, as defined by file size, path, owner, age, extended attributes (xattrs), least-recently used, and other criteria. Multiple rules can be combined with Boolean operators. After copying files to archive, automatic file system purging can be set to occur based on the percentage of consumed file system capacity, file classes, etc. Robinhood can also be used to generate reports and create packages. See the implementation guide Hierarchical Storage Management Configuration Guide for more information.