Diane Ashby wrote:
>
> In addition to ADSM backup for our Novell servers, I now am
> requested to report available space (MB) by volume on each of
> our 20 or so servers.
>
> Well, coming from a mainframe world where this was a piece of
> cake, and more recently working with UNIX boxes where scripts
> and crontab could send the info to one place, I'm not finding an
> easy Novell way to do this; it seems I have to (4.1) log in to each
> server and check each individual volume or (3.2) log in to each
> server, use volinfo and divide each amount by 1024.  Yikes!
> How do other storage managers do this?  Where should I look
> for a better way?  --Diane

This is what I do.

I schedule a UNIX crontab (if you have OS/2, use an "at")
to issue a "query filespace f=d > capacity.log".  I then take
this file and do some cuts on it (cut -c1-10,36-45,79-88,90-97)
to produce a report like:

JTHOMAS   D4N2HD       771.5     61.0
SCASYSVW  IBM_COWB3U 1,011.6     80.1
SCASYSVW  SCASYSVW   1,011.6     80.2
TEST4X    ISM-MWS\SY     0.0      0.0
ZIPPYINT  /              8.0     72.2

which I email to the reports group to make a pretty graph that
shows the nodename, volume, capacity and utilization level.

After they put it into a line graph and hit it with the
rainbow stick (for the added colour), the projections
based over time for growth look impressive, and believe it
or not, even accurate.  Hats off to the ADSM developers for
including this ability in their product...

Hope this helps.

Bryan King
bking AT ism DOT ca