Introduction to monitoring volumes

It is important to know how much free space is available on each volume at your site, to avoid import errors and emergency fixes. Use the Volume Monitor tab to monitor free space and proactively manage volume usage for all volumes at your site. As a general guideline to ensure optimal operation, Siemens Digital Industries Software recommends that you avoid storing more than 1 million files on any individual volume. Choose Window→Show View→Volume Monitor from the Volume Management perspective to open the Volume Monitor view. The filestore tree displays in the left side of the view. The filestore tree lists all filestores with volumes defined on them. The filestores in the tree are loaded from the bootstrap FSC, which is defined by the Fms_BootStrap_Urls preference. Filestores are grouped in the tree by FSC, load balancers, and filestore groups. Selecting one or more filestores from the tree and clicking the Retrieve volume information button at the bottom of the file store tree pane populates the volume table. Selecting a volume from the volume table and clicking Retrieve user information populates the usage table with user and group data. To retrieve volume usage information, select a group or user from the usage table. This populates the boxes to the right of the volume table with usage information.