Reporting Disk Space Consumption

Making sure that a filer has enough remaining disk space available is critical for several reasons:

•	SAN administrators want to make sure to be able to provision disk space for new servers and users when requested, as quickly as possible.

•	The filer itself may need additional disk space for specific features to work properly, like automatic snapshots, mirroring, etc.

•	Users and applications actively using a share on the filer will surely be severely impacted by the fatal "File system is full" error message

The disk space used is permanently monitored for each aggregate and each volume with the NetApp Aggregate and NetApp Volume Monitor Types.

To determine the actual disk space consumption for a storage system, you will need to create a simple two-column dashboard. Dashboards allow you to gather specific types of data and display them in a consolidated graphical format. For detailed information about dashboards options and features, refer to the BMC documentation.

To Report on Disk Space Consumption on a Volume or Aggregate

1.	Login to your BMC TrueSight Operations Management console.

2.	Select Dashboards from the navigation pane.

3.	In the Dashboards page, click Add Dashboard or select Add Dashboard from the dashboard action menu .

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4.	Enter a Title for your dashboard and configure a Global Filter, if needed.

5.	Click Add Dashlet to open the dashlet library for the first column of the row.

6.	From the dashlet library, select the Device Performance template, and then click Close.

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7.	Select Configure Dashlet by clicking the button.

8.	In the panel of input fields and options that opens below the dashboard, enter a Title for the dashlet and specify a Refresh Rate (default is 5 minutes).

9.	Select the NetApp storage device for which you want to compare processors utilization.

10.	Select the Available Capacity and the Available Capacity Percentage parameters for the first volume or aggregate, and click Apply.

Dashlet_Configure_Space_Consumption

Tip

To quickly retrieve a component or a parameter, enter its name in the Search Parameters field and click Search.

11.	Repeat this operation in the next column of the dashboard for another volume or aggregate and click Save.

12.	The dashboard is completed and shows the space consumption for the selected volumes or aggregates.

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