Currently when a Windows user exceeds their home directory user disk quota a Windows message is sent out that says, "Error Copying File or Folder\nThere is not enough free disk space". That is starting to cause many users to call our Help Desk telling us we are out of space when in fact we have all sorts of space, we just don't want them using it (I believe a 10GB home directory limit is more than fair). Before we quota the other 14,000 users it would be nice if we could customize that message (netsend message?) to say something like, "You have exceeded your 10GB quota, please delete your mp3's and wedding pictures to free up space". If we could do this for the soft_disk quota/threshold that would be helpful as well. We have DFM but I think that can only email and can't send a message to a persons Windows ID...of course I'm not going to link 16,000 email address with their Windows ID's.
On a related topic that was recently touched upon in toasters...what is the difference between a threshold and a soft_disk quota? Neither send a netsend windows message, neither restrict the write, and both put a message in the messages file regardless of which is higher than the other. The description in the NetApp Manual is below and it sounds like 2 ways of saying the exact same thing.
threshold (optional) is the disk space usage point at which warnings of approaching quota limits are issued. soft_disk (optional) is a soft quota space limit that, if exceeded, issues warnings rather than rejecting space requests.
Thanks, Jeff
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I believe you get notification when usage drops back below soft_disk as well, while for threshold you only get notification when usage exceeds it. Otherwise they seem to be identical.
Cannot help with other question, sorry
-andrey
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Burton Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:47 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Windows Exceed Quota Message and Threshold/Soft Quota
Currently when a Windows user exceeds their home directory user disk quota a Windows message is sent out that says, "Error Copying File or Folder\nThere is not enough free disk space". That is starting to cause many users to call our Help Desk telling us we are out of space when in fact we have all sorts of space, we just don't want them using it (I believe a 10GB home directory limit is more than fair). Before we quota the other 14,000 users it would be nice if we could customize that message (netsend message?) to say something like, "You have exceeded your 10GB quota, please delete your mp3's and wedding pictures to free up space". If we could do this for the soft_disk quota/threshold that would be helpful as well. We have DFM but I think that can only email and can't send a message to a persons Windows ID...of course I'm not going to link 16,000 email address with their Windows ID's.
On a related topic that was recently touched upon in toasters...what is the difference between a threshold and a soft_disk quota? Neither send a netsend windows message, neither restrict the write, and both put a message in the messages file regardless of which is higher than the other. The description in the NetApp Manual is below and it sounds like 2 ways of saying the exact same thing.
Y threshold (optional) is the disk space usage point at which warnings of approaching quota limits are issued. Y soft_disk (optional) is a soft quota space limit that, if exceeded, issues warnings rather than rejecting space requests.
Thanks, Jeff
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FWIW...
That "error copying message" sounds like the standard windows disk full message to me. Won't be able to customize that without hacking DLL files.
We use Home drive quotas and DFM. I have DFM set to send two messages. 1. A warning e-mail when their drive reaches 89% full (Started at 85% - was triggering a bit early for a lot of users) 2. Another e-mail when the drive reaches 97% full.
Did not have to do anything special to get DFM to send mail. We were fortunate here in that the user's logon ID in Windows is also setup as a proxy address in Exchange. Keeping the id to mail address mapping current would have been a pain.
The way I understand it, Ontap 6.x documentation, disk quotas don't take effect unless you enter a value into threshold. Me, I have been keeping all three values the same, 500 meg soft 500 meg hard and 500 meg threshold. I am sure there is some benefit to adjusting these to different values. So far, keeping them all the same has been working real good for our organization.
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Burton Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:47 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Windows Exceed Quota Message and Threshold/Soft Quota
Currently when a Windows user exceeds their home directory user disk quota a Windows message is sent out that says, "Error Copying File or Folder\nThere is not enough free disk space". That is starting to cause many users to call our Help Desk telling us we are out of space when in fact we have all sorts of space, we just don't want them using it (I believe a 10GB home directory limit is more than fair). Before we quota the other 14,000 users it would be nice if we could customize that message (netsend message?) to say something like, "You have exceeded your 10GB quota, please delete your mp3's and wedding pictures to free up space". If we could do this for the soft_disk quota/threshold that would be helpful as well. We have DFM but I think that can only email and can't send a message to a persons Windows ID...of course I'm not going to link 16,000 email address with their Windows ID's.
On a related topic that was recently touched upon in toasters...what is the difference between a threshold and a soft_disk quota? Neither send a netsend windows message, neither restrict the write, and both put a message in the messages file regardless of which is higher than the other. The description in the NetApp Manual is below and it sounds like 2 ways of saying the exact same thing.
Ÿ threshold (optional) is the disk space usage point at which warnings of approaching quota limits are issued. Ÿ soft_disk (optional) is a soft quota space limit that, if exceeded, issues warnings rather than rejecting space requests.
Thanks, Jeff
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We use a quotas file that has only four columns, so we're not specifying any threshold, nor soft limit, and quotas are operational. This is true for both DOT 6.4.5 and 7.0.4.
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Subject: RE: Windows Exceed Quota Message and Threshold/Soft Quota Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:13:41 -0600 From: "Warkentin, Grant" Grant.Warkentin@calgary.ca To: toasters@mathworks.com
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The way I understand it, Ontap 6.x documentation, disk quotas don't take effect unless you enter a value into threshold. Me, I have been keeping all three values the same, 500 meg soft 500 meg hard and 500 meg threshold. I am sure there is some benefit to adjusting these to different values. So far, keeping them all the same has been working real good for our organization.
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