topic Re: Monitoring disk space in Operating System - OpenVMS

Monitoring disk space

badensfm — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:11:33 GMT

Are there any OpenVMS 7.3-2 sites who have automated monitoring disk free space? If so, I would like to hear what others are doing? Thanks

Re: Monitoring disk space

Jan van den Ende — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:46:48 GMT

badensfm.

is perhaps
http://dcl.openvms.org/stories.php?story=04/05/27/8944070
a good base to start?

We are using it, continously displating on an Xwindow, and have added a pager-call if any disk goes critical.
For us, that has proven to be good enough.

hth

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

Re: Monitoring disk space

Richard Whalen — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:48:10 GMT

We don't do it, but you could use the threshold settings in Insight Management Agents (WBEM)

Re: Monitoring disk space

Thomas Simpson — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:52:53 GMT

There are many, I'm sure.

We use the OpenVMS Management Station software (AKA TNT) that's distributed with VMS. It does a good job monitoring disk space and a lot more.

I also have at least 2 home-grown solutions.

Regards,
Tom

Re: Monitoring disk space

Mike Smith_33 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:14:08 GMT

We use a home grown solution (com file) that pages us with diskname, % used etc. . . when a threshold is reached. We also have Unicenter agents on the box that monitor disk space among other things.

Re: Monitoring disk space

David B Sneddon — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:04:46 GMT

I use ODSM available from

http://www.users.bigpond.com/dbsneddon/software.htm

Dave

Re: Monitoring disk space

Peter Zeiszler — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:38:46 GMT

We use CA watchdog to monitor disk space. (once an hour)

We also use Big Brother to monitor and send alerts. The BB client script is an in house command file that sends to the BB server for alerts and charting. The BB tool is our trending tool with the LARRD installed to track 1.5 years of disk usage on nice little charts. (every 5 min collection)

We also have in house command files that run periodically on specific disks that our customers use to monitor their only specific applications disks. These commands don't alert me but alert their application owners so they are aware of the issues too.