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Disk Space Monitoring

Protop can monitor the free space available on your system. Here's how...

Configuration steps:
  1. Edit pt3agent.[*].cfg and add the ‘df’ data collector to ptInitDC variable:

    df in ptInitDC

  2. Modify alert.[*].cfg to adjust the threshold:

    disk mon alert cfg

  3. Save the file and the agent(s) will pick up the change shortly.

Once enabled, file system percent full alerts will be sent to the portal when any file system breaches the defined threshold.  This alert is just to let you know that you should review all of your disk space usage and correct any findings.  

NOTE: There could be more than one file system that has reached the limit. ProTop reports only the first problem it finds to let you know to check on all of your disk space. 

Alert Filters

Add alert filters to assign a different alert threshold to specific file systems.

For example:

fsPctUsed num > 80 "" 14400 "Disk space % &1 &2 &3" page tt_diskFree.mnt = “NewVolume"
fsPctUsed num > 30 "" 60 "Disk space % &1 &2 &3" page tt_diskFree.mnt inlist "SC-Data2,SC-OS,82C1F6B1"

The available "alertable" variables to filter are found here: df Data Collector.  Be sure to include both the temp table name and the variable name in the filter, e.g., tt_diskFree.mnt.


See also:

The Disk Free Space panel in ProTop RT