This is true Michael.

DFM is a very nice multi-filer management tool and is tightly integrated with the filers. It has lots of useful reports, especially for multi-filer sites that are trying to find a chunk of free space or figure out how much they can expand certain filers.

DFM will not do two of the things Jay asked for though - it will not tell you the type of data using the space, nor will it tell you which users are putting it there. It is more designed to be a multi-filer management tool than a storage management tool.

Highground will (somewhat) do what Jay is looking for. He may also consider looking into BMC. They bill their storage management tools as being "Application specific" - that is they have a capability of mapping certain applications (like Oracle) to data usage. Like Highground, BMC has an agent-based architecture; however, I'm not sure of Highground's support for "Tier 1 storage". BMC has agents for monitoring NetApp as well as EMC Symetrix, Hitachi, etc.

Good luck Jay!

-- Jeff

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:02:35PM -0400, Honeycutt, Michael wrote:

The reason I suggested Highground is because it has the ability to monitor "soft" quotas. It wont enforce quotas on the filer, but it will e-mail users when they are close to reaching their quota. As far as I know, the Data Fabric Manager doesnt have this functionality. Is this true or is my mind clouded from last weeks vacation?

-----Original Message----- From: Coartney, Paul [mailto:Paul.Coartney@netapp.com] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 11:46 AM To: Honeycutt, Michael; 'Jay Newton'; 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: RE: Looking for drive space utilization reports

NetApp has a new tool called Data Fabric Manager that may fit your requirements, and is a lot cheaper than highground. You may want to call your sales rep and get a demo.

-----Original Message----- From: Honeycutt, Michael [mailto:MichaelHoneycutt@NC.SLR.com] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:59 AM To: 'Jay Newton'; 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: RE: Looking for drive space utilization reports

Try this link. http://www.highground.com/ http://www.highground.com/ FYI, this company is a subsidary of Sun Microsystems. They can arrange a free demo if you are interested.

-----Original Message----- From: Jay Newton [mailto:jnewton@chkenergy.com] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 11:28 AM To: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: Looking for drive space utilization reports

I am trying to find a good tool, preferrably Windows-based, that can help me gather statistics on space utilization. I need this for our F840 Filer we currently use, but I would like to be able to use it to look at space usage elsewhere. I'm needing statistics on how much drive space is used, the type of data using it, and which users are putting it there.

Anyone out there have any ideas?

Jay Newton Systems Engineer Chesapeake Operating 6112-114 (405)810-2683 (405)879-9578 fax