diskspacemonitor(8) BSD System Manager's Manual diskspacemonitor(8)
NAME
diskspacemonitor -- Mac OS X Server disk space monitoring facility
SYNOPSIS
diskspacemonitor [on | off | status | check]
DESCRIPTION
diskspacemonitor is a fully configurable, launchd activated facility to
periodically monitor the amount of free space on disks and take pre-con-
figured actions when thresholds are exceeded.
In typical usage, diskspacemonitor is enabled by running "sudo diskspace-
monitor on".
OPTIONS
on - enables the mechanism by adding a launchd task
off - disables the mechanism by deleting the unloading and disabling the
launchd task
status - shows whether the mechanism is enabled, and the monitor inter-
val, if it is (value returned is in minutes).
check - performs the configured checking operations. This is normally
invoked by the launchd task at the specified monitor interval.
CONFIGURATION
diskspacemonitor is driven by config file:
/etc/diskspacemonitor/diskspacemonitor.conf
diskspacemonitor executes alert and recovery scripts in:
/etc/diskspacemonitor/action/
Two pre-defined scripts are provided:
/etc/diskspacemonitor/action/alert, to alert the administrator that a
warning threshold is exceeded, and
/etc/diskspacemonitor/action/recover, to recover disk space by compress-
ing, rolling, and deleting log files.
These scripts are also driven by config files:
/etc/diskspacemonitor/alert.conf
/etc/diskspacemonitor/recover.conf
Administrators may add their own scripts:
/etc/diskspacemonitor/action/alert.local
/etc/diskspacemonitor/action/recover.local
These will be invoked at the respective disk space thresholds before the
standard scripts are invoked.
FILES & FOLDERS
/usr/sbin/diskspacemonitor
/etc/diskspacemonitor/diskspacemonitor.conf
/etc/diskspacemonitor/recover.conf
/etc/diskspacemonitor/alert.conf
/etc/diskspacemonitor/action/recover
/etc/diskspacemonitor/action/alert
/var/log/diskspacemonitor.log
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.diskspacemonitor.plist
Mac OS X Server 16 Jun 2002 Mac OS X Server
Mac OS X 10.6Server - Generated Thu Apr 15 07:13:00 CDT 2010