IBM Director - minimum threshold values - can these be changed?

[wblundell]

IBM Director has a default of 3 and 5% of the total disk space set as a threshold for a hardware alert in the Director console. This can be adjusted but to a minimum of 1% of total disk space.

On a 300 GB disk, it alerts when 3 GB is remaining free. This would be fine but we use a system of "fill" files to keep users from using too much space too quickly. We normally keep the free disk space at 500 MB.

Can this value be set below 1% via a registry change or text file change?

Thanks,
Warren

 

[catorze]

It doesn't require either. From the web-based access menu, you can change the units to MB, and set the threshold as you like it.

 

[wblundell]

It is true that you can select MB from the web based access menu, but if you enter a value less than 1% of the total disk space, an error pops up saying that it must be a minimum of 1% of the total disk.

This 1% value must be stored somewhere, any ideas on where it is located? I could not find it in the registry or any of the Director config files.

Thanks,
Warren

 

[catorze]

1% is the minimum, which should work for the scenario you described. There has got to be a better way to limit users to an allocation of disk space. Have you investigated quotas?

 

[wblundell]

Thanks for the response.

We do use quotas for users home drives, but we also have "public" drives mapped, and these get filled up really quickly by users dumping 100's of pictures, etc to them. We have found it really effective to only leave 500 MB free at all times.

If I could find an easy way to disable the drive space hardware monitoring I would be happy as we use threshold monitors for disk space alerting.

Warren

 

[catorze]

Try stopping IBM Director (net stop twgipc), then renaming mondasd.dll (to something like mondasd.old), then restart IBM Director. That should give you what you want.

 

[wblundell]

Does anyone know the effect of the following:
1. Connect to the IBM Director apache web server on the affected server.
2. TASKS -> HEALTH -> BINDINGS -> DIRECTOR -> SYSTEM STORAGE and removing the check marks.
3. TASKS -> HEALTH -> BINDINGS -> DIRECTOR AGENT HEALTH GUI -> SYSTEM STORAGE and removing the check marks.

Will this cause the agent to stop sending alerts to the Director server for the low disk space?

Thanks,
Warren

 

[dhauser]

From my understanding of Director this should disable all alerts related to disk space.

I will look into this on our Director enviornment and see what it does.

Dan

 

[catorze]

Not all alerts. The IBM Director Agent actually contains two components: web based and managed Agent. unchecking the boxes (and selecting "Apply&quot will stop the pop-up messages from appearing on the local system (web based), but you will still receive alerts in the Director Management Server Event Log (managed system).