Extracting Server Disk Space Stats
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Posted: 16 Mar 2004 |
Recently we published this Q&A and asked for other suggestions.
Question: When my organisation previously used NetWare5, I was able to use a utility called Automate4 to extract server disk space stats. Since our upgrade to NetWare 6, which uses NSS, such info extractions are no longer possible.
Are you aware of any utilities that can perform such extraction tasks on NetWare 6?
Answer: One option is NetWare Remote Manager (NRM), which can show you a ton of statistics about your server's volumes.
See the NRM docs for further info.
Another possibility is that one of the JRB utilities might do what you want.
OPEN CALL: Anyone got any suggestions? What works best for you?
Suggestions
Sami Kapanen
Along with the JRB utilities, www.gadgetfactory.com also supplies nice little utils for this. e.g:
- VGadget - quick status summary of any/all of the volumes on your NetWare servers
- DSpace - find out quickly and easily who is using all the space on a volume
Larry Bernstone
NSS provides a volume called _ADMIN which contains relevant info about the NSS pools. You can map to this volume \\<server>\_ADMIN and look in the pool directory for files called PoolInfo.xml. They contain free space and total space entries for the pools. You could set up a script (Perl has XML parser modules which would work well for this) that reads these files from a number of servers.
Paul Thompson
Here's a way to monitor the disk space of your NetWare volumes from a Linux workstation.
SUSE distributions include a utility called nwvolinfo. The basic syntax is:
nwvolinfo -S <server> -U <username.context> -P <password> -v <volume> [-N]
That will output something like this:
Total : 95762072K
Free : 54052672K
Purgable : 20891932K
No Purg. : 0K
Dirs : 2147483647
Free dirs: 2146469252
The -N switch displays the information in numeric-only format, so with the help of a shell script you could generate output like this for all your servers/volumes:
| Server | Volume | Total | Free | Purgeable | No Purg | Dirs | Free dirs |
| ukb001 | sys | 4024676K | 893340K | 154892K | 0K | 2147483647 | 2147389081 |
| ukb001 | data | 95762072K | 54052672K | 20891932K | 0K | 2147483647 | 2146469252 |
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