Aggregate free space alerting

GTHOMAS13 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:18:42 GMT

Hi All,

When referring to the /etc/messages on 7-mode, at which point does the system log console messages about aggregate space?

An aggregate has reached 95% utlized and no messages were displayed in either the console or messages file.

We noticed a console messages was generated for a volume reaching 98%.

I know DFM would be used to manage capacity, however this is not in place.

Re: Aggregate free space alerting

GidonMarcus — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 01:13:08 GMT

For historical reasons it's seems that "monitor.volume.nearlyFull" and "monitor.volume.Full "ems events are used also for aggregate objects. should be on 95% for nearly and 98% for full

see ontap 9 article here.

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196906/html/GUID-20114057-1848-45BE-9BE1-6B2191E74A8B.html

However, the event is classified as "debug"

https://mysupport.netapp.com/eservice/ems?emsAction=details&eventId=348142&software=ontap&emsId=monitor.volume.nearlyFull&emsversion=0

And Debug is the lowest level of messages

https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/ems/systrans_sev_levels.htm

And by default - it's not logged to the /etc/messages as it's set to only capture info and above level of messages

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1368862/html/GUID-D0792069-6118-4E11-B7C4-3DA7C156A0BF.html

You can change the settings on the last file so it will put an event in the messages file

Hope that helpful.

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