I have started using SWatch to monitor quotas on my F740. SWatch, The Simple WATCHer, can be found at:

http://www.oit.ucsb.edu/~eta/swatch/

It is great for monitoring all kinds of system files. I use it to let me know when one of my users has hit their quota. This allows me to act on it promptly. Here is my .swatchrc file for my filer named "toaster" that is mounted on my admin system where the progam runs:

---------------------------------------------------- # # Swatch configuration file for constant monitoring #

# people out of quota on praxis watchfor /disk quota exceeded/ echo mail ----------------------------------------------------

I enter the command "swatch --tail-file=/toaster/etc/messages" and it both echos the error in the window and emails me the error. Of course the user is a UID as NetApp has not setup the error so that it translates the uid to a user. I am working on the program, it is in perl, to do more for me. I have perl version perl5.005_03 and I had to get several modules to get it to make, but it wasn't to bad.

The cool thing is I want to update to 6.1.1R1 so that the quota threshold can be used. Then I can have a program warn the user when they are getting close to their quota limit.

It would be nice if this was built into the NetApp though.

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