Is there a way to get size of directory (including the size of its contents) in isilon

If you have InsightIQ it can show it in filesystem analytics.  Basically the fsanalyze job stores the results of it's own efficient scans of the filesystem in /ifs/.ifsvar/modules/fsa/.  In that folder you'll find a symbolic link called 'latest' which points to the latest result sets. Querying it with SQL language (which I'm no expert in), can likely yield the results you're looking for.

~Chris

Hello Chris,

Thanks for the answer. Looks like I do not have InsightIQ in the simulator I am running. The folders you mentioned exists, but there is not symbolic link to latest.

Also is there a way to get it using rest api's that are exposed by the isilon? Looks like fsanalyze is not part of jobs which can be created using platform/3/job/jobs

amandeepgautam

Try /ifs/.ifsvar/modules/fsa/pub.

x400-1# ls -l

total 16

drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel  28 Oct 16 22:00 job.758

drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel  28 Oct 17 22:00 job.764

drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel  28 Oct 18 22:00 job.771

lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel   7 Oct 18 22:00 latest -> job.771

x400-1# pwd

/ifs/.ifsvar/modules/fsa/pub

x400-1#

Still no luck. I do not have pub folder in /ifs/.ifsvar/modules/fsa/

Any idea how that is created? Also is there a way to get this information from rest api exposed by isilon?

amandeepgautam,

Is the FSA job enabled?

s200-1# isi job types list

ID                Enabled  Policy

-----------------------------------

...

DomainMark        Yes      LOW

FSAnalyze          Yes      LOW

FlexProtect        Yes      MEDIUM

...

-----------------------------------

Total: 25

s200-1#

Yes, it seems it is enables.

isi-simu-81-1% isi job types list | grep FSA

FSAnalyze          Yes      LOW

hi amandeepgautam,

There are several ways of getting what you want:

1. CLI -- run "du"

2. Use SmartQuotas -- set a quota on those directories that you want to report off of, say using advisory quotas which only does accounting and will not enforce.  Run quota scan job and you'll have the results.

3. FSA -- sounds like you are using a simulator.  You could deploy InsightIQ which is a different product and needs its own CentOS v6.8 VM.  If you don't want to do that, you could just enable FS Analyze.  Run that job.  When done, see about using the knowledge from this blog to query the FSA results -- Accessing FSA results through Platform API

4. InsightIQ – if you can deploy InsightIQ, after the FS Analyze job runs, use the File System Reporting feature and look at the Directory Chart (the pie chart on top of the reports).  It allows you to drill down into the directories and reports Logical and Physical sizes of the directories.

That was quite helpful. Is there a way to run the fsa job through a rest API call?