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Setting Up and Starting Monitoring of Disk Space Usage

To configure and start monitoring disk space usage:

  1. Click the Modules icon in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the Watchdog icon in the Modules group.
  3. Click the Disks tab.

    All connected (mounted) devices will be listed.

    An icon in the S (status) column shows whether a hard disk partition or storage device is currently monitored by Watchdog and it indicates the current disk space usage rate:

  4. Specify the hard drive partitions that should be monitored and specify monitoring preferences:
    1. Click a partition or device name.
    2. Specify the amount of disk space that can be used without drawing your attention. When this threshold is reached, Watchdog will send you an alert and run the command you specified. We would recommend leaving the 80 % value selected.
    3. Specify the number of files and directories that can be created on the server without drawing your attention. When this threshold is reached, Watchdog will send you an alert. We would recommend leaving the 80 % value selected. You can specify the exact number of files, if you know the total capacity of your file system: to find it out, log in as root to the server and run the command dumpe2fs <device name> from shell.
    4. Specify the command that Watchdog will run when the specified disk space threshold is reached. This can be a command to run a disk space cleaning utility like a tmpwatch on RedHat Linux systems.
    5. Click OK.
    6. Repeat the procedure to configure monitoring for all the partitions you need.
  5. Once you have specified all partitions you would like Watchdog to monitor, click the Enable icon in the Tools group.

To stop monitoring a specific partition:

  1. Click the Modules icon in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the Watchdog icon in the Modules group.
  3. Click the Disks tab.
  4. Click an icon corresponding to the partition you would like Watchdog to stop monitoring.

To stop monitoring all partitions:

  1. Click the Modules icon in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the Watchdog icon in the Modules group.
  3. Click the Disks tab.
  4. Click the Disable icon in the Tools group.

Important: Performing this action affects the whole monitoring service, meaning that not only all disk partitions, but all system services will stop being monitored.

See Also

Setting Up and Starting Watchdog Services

Setting Up and Starting Monitoring of System Services

Setting Up and Starting Security Scanning