Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > At the 20,000 foot view, we have a spreadsheet listing who owns what, > when it was created, when it expires, and other such metadata. > > At the ground view, we have system tools and assorted backup reports. > > We're a very small shop but our storage use is getting to the point > where it's just a wee bit too painful to try to keep track of these > things hand anymore.
We're in the process of setting up rrdtool+cacti to monitor our NetApp filers and their I/O performance and storage utilization, and there's a lot of useful information you can get out of the SNMP MIBs for this kind of data. So, you could just install SNMP agents on each machine and set up rrdtool+cacti to gather that information and create all sorts of charts, etc.... However, so far as I know, none of those tools provide any per-user or metadata information, at least not of the kind of sort you're looking for. However, if you can come up with a way to script that kind of information gathering, then you could run those scripts underneath most SNMP agents, and then you'd be able to gather all that additional data plus all the standard information. > Any thoughts? Before I start trying to invent this from scratch? In my experience, most of the things you can do by hand are things you can also find a way to script, so this should be a problem that you can solve without too much work, based on top of standard open source tools like rrdtool, cacti, and Net-SNMP. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> http://preview.tinyurl.com/bigsbytracks _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
