There are plenty of good uses for cron on the control station. In a previous life, we ran regular dumps of quota consumption of users. I had a cron jobs that would run nas_quota output, then use a local lookup file to convert TreeIDs to users and groups.
Other hand uses included things like using nas_fs -query to track the growth of SavVols. You'll find good examples here on EMC Community - you can just adapt them to cron and keep tabs on how quickly SavVols grow.
A customer I once worked with used cron to start manual filesystem scans (server_viruschk -fsscan fs02 -create).
There are a lot of handy uses - just keep in mind that long-running scripts can sometimes have a detrimental effect on the CS and it's activities. It's probably best to "start small", and gradually add more cron jobs, than to layer on piles of them in the beginning!
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February 7th, 2014 07:00
There are plenty of good uses for cron on the control station. In a previous life, we ran regular dumps of quota consumption of users. I had a cron jobs that would run nas_quota output, then use a local lookup file to convert TreeIDs to users and groups.
Other hand uses included things like using nas_fs -query to track the growth of SavVols. You'll find good examples here on EMC Community - you can just adapt them to cron and keep tabs on how quickly SavVols grow.
A customer I once worked with used cron to start manual filesystem scans (server_viruschk -fsscan fs02 -create).
There are a lot of handy uses - just keep in mind that long-running scripts can sometimes have a detrimental effect on the CS and it's activities. It's probably best to "start small", and gradually add more cron jobs, than to layer on piles of them in the beginning!
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February 10th, 2014 00:00
Hi Karl,
I really appreciate your real-life good examples and advice!
Thank you,