I use Operations Manager (Data Fabric Manager was the old name).
I have configured it to send alarms for such things as emails to me and our command center. For good measure I also have configured certain alarms to be to sent to me as SMS alerts using a SMS gateway provider on the internet.
For you inode problem, you would get a email like this:
A Warning event at 08 Jul 00:58 Romance Daylight Time on Volume XXvolumenameXX on Storage System XXstoragesystemnameXX
90.00% (87485891 out of total 97085638) inodes have been used up.
Click below to see the details of this event.
http://dfm:8080/start.html#st=1&data=(eventID=1042554)
*** Event details follow.***
General Information
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DataFabric Manager server Serial Number: 1-50-1039 Alarm Identifier: 21
Event Fields
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Event Identifier: 1042554
Event Name: Inodes Almost Full
Event Description: Inode utilization of the file system Event Severity: Warning Event Timestamp: 08 Jul 00:58
Source of Event
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Source Identifier: 64507
Source Name: storagesystem:/VOL0234_VFILER_data1
Source Type: Volume
Name of the host: XstoragesystemnameXX Type of the host: Storage System Host identifier: 3980
Event Arguments
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dfKBytesPercent: 37.2724
dfKBytesTotal: 17179869184
dfMountedOn: VOL0234_VFILER_data1
dfInodesUsed: 87485891
dfInodesPercent: 90
dfInodesTotal: 97085638
dfKBytesUsed: 6403344876
--NetApp DataFabric Manager