PowerScale OneFS 9.2.1.0 CLI Administration Guide

Quota notification rules

You can write quota notification rules to generate alerts that are triggered by event thresholds.

When an event occurs, a notification is triggered according to your notification rule. For example, you can create a notification rule that sends an email when a disk-space allocation threshold is exceeded by a group.

You can configure notification rules to trigger an action according to event thresholds (a notification condition). A rule can specify a schedule, such as "every day at 1:00 AM," for executing an action or immediate notification of certain state transitions. When an event occurs, a notification trigger may execute one or more actions, such as sending an email or sending a cluster alert to the interface. The following examples demonstrate the types of criteria that you can use to configure notification rules.

• Notify when a threshold is exceeded; at most, once every 5 minutes
• Notify when allocation is denied; at most, once an hour
• Notify while over threshold, daily at 2 AM
• Notify while grace period expired weekly, on Sundays at 2 AM

Notifications are triggered for events grouped by the following categories:

Instant notifications

Includes the write-denied notification, triggered when a hard threshold denies a write, and the threshold-exceeded notification, triggered at the moment a hard, soft, or advisory threshold is exceeded. These are one-time notifications because they represent a discrete event in time.

Ongoing notifications

Generated on a scheduled basis to indicate a persisting condition, such as a hard, soft, or advisory threshold being over a limit or a soft threshold's grace period being expired for a prolonged period.