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How to show absolute Inodes used in OnCommand

madden — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:43:32 GMT

I would like to use OnCommand Operations Manager to view the number of inodes per volume. I can find % inodes used as a report field, but not absolute inodes used. Checking the CLI with "dfm detail <object id of a volume>" I see in the output these fields:

dfInodesPercent 30

dfInodesTotal 1729406

dfInodesUsed 511104

Is there any way to use this information in a report?

The reason we care about absolute # of inodes used is we use NDMP/dump for backups to tape and volumes that have [too] many files become difficult to manage. Being able to report on this field would be useful for planning datalayout.

Thanks,

Chris

Re: How to show absolute Inodes used in OnCommand

adaikkap — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:19:12 GMT

Hi Chris,

Pls find attached the script-plugin that generate this data. It uses perl. Use the Readme file inside the zip for setting it up as a script plugin.

Regards

adai

Re: How to show absolute Inodes used in OnCommand

madden — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:13:30 GMT

Hi Adai,

Very clever way to get the inode information into the reporting views! I made a couple of small updates so that the sorting on these fields works correctly. Also I created a windows binary version to remove the requirement for perl on windows. I have attached the updated version (now v1.1) for plug-in packages in both perl and windows binary formats.

Cheers,
Chris