Windows Quota Monitoring
list Bill Hart
I'm curious as to what other people are doing to monitor quotas, or if they are. We currently have our 2003 Server set up simply for warning so that it doesn't actually prevent people from doing stuff they need to, and it hasn't been a problem yet, but I'd like to stay on top of who is exceeding quotas and such. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't NEED to be a hobbit answer, but if there is one out there, that would be great. I've done some searching and will do some more, but thought I'd see if anyone out there had any great ideas. Thanks, Bill Hart Burke Corporation
list Etienne Grignon
Hi Bill, 2006/8/9, Bill Hart <user-1131e5ac48a4@xymon.invalid>:
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I'm curious as to what other people are doing to monitor quotas, or if they are. We currently have our 2003 Server set up simply for warning so that it doesn't actually prevent people from doing stuff they need to, and it hasn't been a problem yet, but I'd like to stay on top of who is exceeding quotas and such. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't NEED to be a hobbit answer, but if there is one out there, that would be great. I've done some searching and will do some more, but thought I'd see if anyone out there had any great ideas.
For monitoring the quotas, you may use the event logs. You should enable the Windows option which enable writing to the event logs when a quotas is exceeded so, you can get the alert from the msgs column. It is the easiest way to monitor Windows quotas without developing nothing. Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON
list Bill Hart
Etienne, It is writing to the event logs I see, but since they are just informational messages it doesn't really "alert" us to anything. I'll just check them manually since it looks like they are checked every hour and logged it should be easy to skim the logs by hand (since it's only one server here that we're watching this for). I just wondered if anyone had any neat automated stuff out there. Bill Hart Burke Corporation
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From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:user-87c74c1037a4@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:58 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Windows Quota Monitoring
Hi Bill,
2006/8/9, Bill Hart <user-1131e5ac48a4@xymon.invalid>:I'm curious as to what other people are doing to monitor quotas, or if they are. We currently have our 2003 Server set up simply for warning so that it doesn't actually prevent people from doing stuff they need to, and it hasn't been a problem yet, but I'd like to stay on top of who is exceeding quotas and such. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't NEED to be a hobbit answer, but if there is one out there, that would be great. I've done some searching and will do some more, but thought I'd see if anyone out there had any great ideas.
For monitoring the quotas, you may use the event logs. You should enable the Windows option which enable writing to the event logs when a quotas is exceeded so, you can get the alert from the msgs column. It is the easiest way to monitor Windows quotas without developing nothing. Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON
list Etienne Grignon
Hello Bill, 2006/8/10, Bill Hart <user-1131e5ac48a4@xymon.invalid>:
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Etienne, It is writing to the event logs I see, but since they are just informational messages it doesn't really "alert" us to anything. I'll just check them manually since it looks like they are checked every hour and logged it should be easy to skim the logs by hand (since it's only one server here that we're watching this for). I just wondered if anyone had any neat automated stuff out there.
You should try BBWin because with it, you can trigger information events as warning or errors events so they can appear in yellow or red in your bb pages. You may for example create a msgs rule to trigger information messages from the event source corresponding to the quotas so you will be automatically informed of these events without checking it manually. Then, depending the description, you can create more msgs rules with red or yellow colors. -- Etienne GRIGNON