[Nagiosplug-help] Check the space on a windows folder

[Tim Reimers]

I guess the idea is to know that that key folder isn't going to run out
of space..

ergo, it's a design-of-the-system issue, not a monitoring issue.

this is probably obvious to experienced admins, and may be obvious to
everyone, but ;-)

If you want c:\mail\spool to NOT run out of space, and it's on the same
partition as c:\mail\logs (for example)
then your real goal is to ensure that c:\mail\logs doesn't grow and fill
up available space on c:\ or c:\mail (assuming \mail is someplace else)

That being said, I'd create a logical drive for "\mail\spool" and put it
on an "f:" drive or something like that.

Then monitor that partition, and you know that the ONLY thing affecting
the space on that partition is going to be actual mail files.

So in a sense, just monitoring the space on C: will tell you that
there's free space for c:\mail\spool  -- or anything else in any other
folder on that drive.

If the available space starts going down, simply monitoring C: won't
tell you -where- the problem is, and I think that's what Riccardo really
wants to see.




Tim Reimers
Systems Analyst II
Information Technology Services
City of Asheville
phone - 828-259-5512
treimers at ashevillenc.gov

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Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-help] Check the space on a windows folder

Riccardo Cupardo schrieb:
> Hi Marcus,
Hey Riccardo,

please don't mail me privately, so everyone can profit from our exchange
of ideas.

> ty for your replay, i need a check in a specific folder, because there

> is a lot of traffic in all the partition with a grow very high, for 
> that i need to check the status of an only folder/directory.

Just check the partition, that's also the free space in your folder. As
a matter of fact, there is no such thing as free folder space, since the
folder is part of the partition and uses it's space.

Greetz, Marcus



> 
> Marcus ha scritto:
>> Riccardo Cupardo schrieb:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> anyone know a plugin to check the space on a windows folder(not on a

>>> drive), like c:\mail\spool
>>
>> The free space in a folder should in my humble opinion be equal to 
>> the free space on the partition (C:) on which the folder resides in, 
>> if I am not totally mistaken. So where is, in your opinion  the 
>> difference in folder vs. partition?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  Marcus
>>
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