|
Tech Support
Internet Exchange Frequently Asked Questions
Internet Exchange Messaging Server
Quota Agent FAQ
Introduction
Version 4.1 of the Internet Exchange Messaging Server introduced the
Message Store Quota Agent, a system tool for the setting and enforcing
of disk usage quotas on Message Store user accounts. This feature limits
the amount of resources that is allocated to individual users to prevent
them from consuming all of the available disk space. The Message Store
Quota Agent provides a simple disk monitoring system that allowing the
monitoring of disk usage for all users in the server. Aside from
controlling the size of the disk usage, it can also monitor the total
number of users as well as those who have exceeded their quota.
Message Store system information such as disk usage will be gathered by
the Message Store quota agent. The quota agent will generate reports in
the form of HTML and text files to verify the Message Store's
performance and space utilization. The reports in HTML format are
available through the IEMS web interface, while text file reports will
serve as file attachments to mails sent to the administrator.
Setting Disk Usage Quotas
The Message Store's Add User Web Interface allows the
administrator to set user quotas for new users. When the Default size of
the User Account is set, the Disk Quota attribute will take the default
size. You can assign any disk quota to the new user. When assigning an
unlimited quota, you must select the Unlimited button of
the Disk Quota attribute.
The setting of user quotas for current users is done through the Message
Store web interface. You can change the disk quota of a particular user
by specifying the Disk Quota to be allotted to the user. When assigning
an unlimited quota, you must select the Unlimited button of
the Disk Quota attribute.
Quota Agent System Reports
The Quota Agent can also generate Quota Reports on the fly. This is
accomplished by clicking the View Disk Usage hyperlink of
the Message Store Web Interface. This link generates the HTML report,
which sorts all the users by their Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN).
The View Disk Usage hyperlink computes the disk usage of
the Message Store users. Since computing for the disk usage takes quite
some time especially for those who are managing thousands of Message
Store Accounts, the Quota Agent has been designed to let you choose
whether you would like to view the previous Quota Agent Report to reduce
time consumption. A Window indicating the last run time and run date of
the Quota Agent will be displayed.
The Quota Agent System Report for Message Store page summarizes the Quota
Status of the Message Store. The table displays the Home Directory, Total
Disk Usage, Total Number of Users and Total Number of Users Over Quota.
The program also sorts all the users by their FQDN.
Archive Of History Reports
An archive of all the text file reports generated by the Quota Agent
engine to let you browse through the previous reports via the Quota
Agent History Report page. The History Report page can be viewed by
clicking the Quota Agent History link of the Message Store
Web Interface. The History Report includes the Run Time Date of the
Quota Agent engine. Each Run Time Date is the link to the generated
text file report. Take Note that the Run Time Date includes three
attributes which summarizes the Quota Report. These attributes are
the: Used Space, Total Number of Users and Total Number of Users Over
Quota.
Additional Documentation
Further information related to the Internet Exchange Quota Agent can
be found in the following documents:
|