Looks like thresholds are specific to DFM - (Just performed a basic search of the now site).

About user quota thresholds User quota thresholds are the values that DataFabric Manager uses to evaluate whether the space consumption by a user is nearing or has reached the limit set by the user's quota. If these thresholds are crossed, DataFabric Manager generates user quota events.

By default, DataFabric Manager sends user alerts in the form of e-mail messages to the users who cause user quota events. Additionally, you can configure alarms that notify the specified recipients (DataFabric Manager administrators, a pager address, or an SNMP trap host) of user quota events.

DataFabric Manager can also send user alert when users exceed their soft quota limits, however, no thresholds are defined in DataFabric Manager for the soft quotas. DataFabric Manager uses the soft quota limits set in the /etc/quotas file of a filer to determine whether a user has crossed his soft quota.

How user quota threshold settings are applied When you configure a user quota threshold for a volume or qtree, the settings apply to all user quotas on that volume or qtree.

DataFabric Manager uses the user quota thresholds to monitor the hard and soft quota limits configured in the /etc/quotas file of each filer.

For information about configuring the hard and soft quota limits, see Managing user quotas with DataFabric Manager

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-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Frank Bonnet Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 5:25 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Threshold in quotas file ?

Hello

Due to my bad understanding of English I would like to know what is the meaning of the "Threshold" field in the /etc/quotas file which is blank by default ?