I've recently been approached by management and asked to produce some weekly/monthly reports on our F330's. Do you have any suggestions on which technique provides the best reports? Are there pubically available scripts you might recommend?
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The reports I've been asked to generate focus mainly on who/what users are consuming most of the space. We would also like to chart growth in order to predict expansion needs. These items are not very technical, but given the added overhead of NFS and the .snapshots, I was just curious to know how others monitor their Network Appliances. Are there any cool tricks?
No scripts, but some random ideas:
- If you set up super-giant quotas for all of your users, then you can use the "quota report" command to get a report on everyone's disk consumption without having to do a giant "find".
(Super-giant so they don't hit the limit. If you want to control their use you can put small limits in, but people outside of academia tend not to want limits.)
- If you want to track space by department or group, using tree quotas can let you track or control disk consumption on a per subtree basis. (See the "quota qtree" command under na_quota(1).)
- If you run "df" on the filer, as opposed to over NFS, you can see the snapshot disk consumption. (You probably know this, but we support "rsh" so you can put "rsh toaster df -i" into a script.)
- SNMP provides access to a variety of statistics, so if you have a smart SNMP package you may be able to get it to grab the data and graph it for you -- depending how smart.
Dave Hitz hitz@netapp.com Network Appliance (415) 428-5106