Capacity monitoring

Capacity monitoring is a feature that monitors the capacity of Storage Foundation for Windows dynamic volumes and Microsoft Disk Management dynamic volumes so that when the used disk space on a volume reaches a user-specified threshold, an email alert message is sent.

You can also use SFW's Rule Manager event notification function to set up an email message that is sent when thresholds are reached and logged.

Capacity monitoring is set at the individual volume level and is turned off by default. You need to enable it for each volume you want to monitor.

The capacity monitoring settings you establish only affect existing volumes. New volumes that are added to a server after any capacity monitoring settings are made have the default capacity monitoring settings applied to them. If the default is not appropriate, you must change the settings for any new volumes that are added.

Capacity monitoring is also available in the CLI with vxvol capacitymonitor.

To enable a volume warning notification

  1. Right-click on the volume you want to manage and click Capacity Monitoring

    The Capacity Monitoring window appears.

  2. Set the capacity monitoring parameters.

    To set the capacity monitoring parameters, perform the following:

    Enable Capacity Monitoring for Volume

    Check this option to enable capacity monitoring for a selected volume

    Disable Capacity Monitoring for Volume

    Check this option to disable capacity monitoring for a selected volume

    Polling interval for checking capacity (sec)

    The polling interval is the interval of time, in seconds, at which Storage Foundation checks volume capacities. The minimum and default value is 20 seconds.

    Minimum time between alerts

    To keep the event log file from getting full, you can limit how often an alert message is generated after the warning threshold is reached for a volume. The default is 100 seconds between messages.

    Critical threshold

    The percentage of volume capacity that Storage Foundation reports an error.

    The default critical threshold is 90% of capacity.

    Warning threshold

    The percentage of volume capacity that Storage Foundation logs a warning alert message. This is a warning that the volume is reaching full capacity.

    The default warning threshold is 80% of capacity.

    Send email notification when volume.......

    Enable the check box marked against "Send email notification when volume..... " if you want to send email notifications. In the Recepient Email Address (es), enter the email IDs to whom notification needs to be sent.

    Make Policy available to another cluster node when failover

    Enable the check box Make Policy available to another cluster node when failoverif you have a cluster setup. This check box appears only in case of a clustered setup.

  3. Click OK to enable the settings.

More Information

Accessing the Rule Manager utility