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Monitoring linux quotas

list Galen Johnson
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:24:00 -0500
Message-Id: <user-09e319bde48d@xymon.invalid>

Yep...solaris and OSX use the same commands for local filesystem quotas.
There's a wrapper script for 'repquota -av' that needs to be tweaked to
work correctly that we may be able to modify...I need to do this for
another environment so I may get to it this weekend or next week.

 
For your info, NetApp is basically a standalone nfs server (of cifs if
you want to add windows mounts as well).

 
=G=

 
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:04 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring linux quotas

 
I am using "linux quotas" on Centos 5.1 (a RHEL derivative).

I've never heard of NetApp.  The command I'm using to check the quotas
are edquota and repquota.  I had to stick in the quota options in
/etc/fstab too.  Does this help confirm I'm using the right quotas? 

Here is what the RPM says:

Name   : quota
Arch   : i386
Epoch  : 1
Version: 3.13
Release: 1.2.3.2.el5
Size   : 783 k
Repo   : installed
Summary: System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage. 

Description:
The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring
and limiting user and or group disk usage per filesystem.


On 1/16/08, Galen Johnson <user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid> wrote:

There's actually a better netapp monitoring tool for Hobbit (which I
think works for BB as well).  I've found several snippets of various
commands and perl scripts that could probably be cobbled together into a
decent monitor.

 
=G=

 
From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:56 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring linux quotas

 
On Jan 16, 2008 9:31 AM, Galen Johnson <user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid> wrote:

	Unfortunatley, you didn't...I do recall seeing one but now I
don't recall where.


You may be thinking of this:

     http://support.bb4.com/archive/200009/msg00877.html 

which uses rsh to get disk usage/quota from NetApp fileservers.

Dunno if that helps, but it might give you a place to start.  How does
the system tell you the users are exceeding their quotas??

Ralph Mitchell 


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