VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 User's Guide - VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (June 2002)

Chapter 5, File System Tasks 131
Monitoring File System Capacity
Monitoring File System Capacity
The Set Usage Threshold procedure enables you to monitor the capacity of a file system
on a mounted volume.
▼ To monitor the capacity of a file system
1. Select the file system to be monitored.
2. Choose Actions > Set Usage Threshold.
3. Complete the Set Usage Threshold dialog box as follows:
Monitor Capacity Select the Monitor Capacity checkbox to initiate capacity
monitoring on the file system. The File Systems Tabular View
indicates if capacity monitoring is
Enabled or Disabled.
Threshold Percentage Select the Threshold Percentage value. When usage crosses
this value, an alert will be logged.
Alert Interval
(vxfs systems only):
Specifies the minimum time between recording alerts. (Avoids
multiple recordings if events are moving back and forth over the
boundary.)
Notes:
For systems other than vxfs, alert thresholds are not persistent (that is, the information is lost
when the server restarts). This means that:
- File system objects on the bus reflect the threshold and enabled status for alerts
- Once an alert is fired, the status on the bus is disabled so that the alert is not refired at
every periodic rescan
(This can be avoided by allocating a low value to Threshold Percentage.)