Monitoring system storage

You can configure Reporting Database System Manager to send you an email when it detects that its available disk storage space has dropped below thresholds that you define. Specifically:

  • When the available space is less than a warning threshold, you receive a warning email.
  • When the available space is less than a stop threshold, you receive an email and, after a five minute delay, Reporting Database System Manager stops critical services.

Configuring system storage monitoring

To configure system storage monitoring:

Procedure 

  1. Log into the Reporting Database System Manager at: https://<RDB SERVER>:8443/mics/mics.html

  2. Go to Maintenance > System Storage.

  3. Select Check free space capacity every.

  4. Select how many days between each check.

  5. Select the time of day to check.

    Important: The time is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Select a time that is during your work hours so that you see the notification emails at a time of day when you can take actions.

  6. Enter the email addresses for receiving the notifications. Separate email addresses with commas.

  7. Select a Warning threshold.

    For example, the default value is 20%, which means an email notification is sent when disk storage availability drops to less than 20% of disk storage capacity.

  8. Select a Stop Threshold.

    For example, the default value is 10%. When disk storage availability drops to less than the threshold, an email notification is sent when both of the following are true:

    1. Disk storage availability drops to less than 10% of disk storage capacity.
    2. You have selected Stop all critical Reporting DB services when stop threshold is met.

  9. Select Stop all critical Reporting DB services when stop threshold is met.

  10. Click Save.

Freeing system storage space

To create more free space on the Reporting Database server, configure lower values for history and archive retention. You need to wait for the associated scheduled jobs to run to free the disk space.

To create more free space on the Reporting Database server:

Procedure 

  1. Log into the Reporting Database System Manager from:
    https://    <RDB SERVER>:8443/mics/mics.html

  2. Go to Settings > Reporting Database.

  3. Select Edit Preferences from the Actions drop-down menu.

  4. Configure lower values for the Use the Keep History Data for and Keep Archive Files fields.

  5. Click Apply.