-- Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software ________________________________ From: Sto Rage(c) [mailto:netbacker@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:41 PM To: David Dalby Cc: Sphar, Mike; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Individual quota data via snmp? AFAIK, you don't need the extra SRM license for tracking quotas graphically, just the basic DFM core license is enough to see individual user quotas. -G On 3/30/06, David Dalby Ddalby@asi.com.au wrote: Hi Mike, Have you had a look at the SRM (Storage Resource Management) module for DFM..... Look at Chapter 7 : http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/DFM_win/rel33/html/software/adm in/srm.htm This allows you to install host agents on Windows / Unix / Linux systems that access shares & exports. The DFM module communicates with the agents on a regular basis and instructs them to walk shares / exports to gather statistics such as file use by user amongst other things. Rgds Dave -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com ] On Behalf Of Sphar, Mike Sent: Friday, 31 March 2006 8:34 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Individual quota data via snmp? So we're fighting the constant battle here about never enough space, no matter how much we buy, and the complaints we get back are "well, I don't see how we could be using that much space, who is using it?" which in itself is a relatively simply question to answer once by pulling a quota report, but what we're finding the need to do is have some automated process whereby managers can look at say a web page and see the current status of how much space is being used by whom. (We are, however, forbidden from actually enforcing quotas.) I had hoped I might be able to pull individual user and tree quota reports from the filer via snmp, but I'm not having much luck with it, and what little I'm finding about it online is implying that the snmp quota implementation is not complete, but then those comments seem to be several years old. I had some thoughts of actually tracking certain specific problem users with cacti, keeping long term trend graphs of their space usage, but can't seem to actually get individual quota numbers from snmp. So any suggestions out there about tools, scripts, whatever that can do this for us? A nicely formatted html page that anyone can access would be ideal. -- Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software