JP2001022616A - Method and device for automatically monitoring used directory capacity - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for monitoring the used capacity of each directory. SOLUTION: When monitoring the used directory capacity (use condition) of a disk storage device connected to an NT server, a list 10 for the used capacity of each directory is provided. Then, the condition of using each directory in the NT server is automatically monitored (A1). When the used capacity of any one directory exceeds a preset reference value, an alarm is generated. In this case, an alarm message is imparted to the operator of the NT server by electronic mail (A2).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique for automatically monitoring the used capacity of a directory in a storage device of a terminal device such as an NT server.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An example of a conventional technique for monitoring the used capacity of a directory is disclosed in Reference 1: "Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-213252".
Is disclosed. This document 1 discloses a technique for notifying when the used capacity of the entire directory of a storage device exceeds an upper limit value. Another example of the conventional technology for monitoring the used capacity of a directory is disclosed in Document 2:
It is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-049875.
According to the technique disclosed in Document 2, folders are created hierarchically, the number of documents stored in each folder is monitored, and when the number of documents exceeds a certain number, the folders are reconfigured.

[0003]

By the way, even if the used capacity of the entire directory of the storage device is smaller than the capacity of the storage device, if the used capacity of one directory becomes extremely large, the other directory will be used. May be pressed. That is, a plurality of directories exist in one partition of a storage device such as a disk. The capacity of this partition is constant. For this reason, if the capacity of one directory increases, the capacity available for other directories in the partition decreases.

[0004] In particular, in the Windows NT (registered trademark) OA environment, the file server allows a user to freely add and update data in a predetermined directory. However, on an individual directory basis,
Data limit is not set. For this reason, when the used capacity of a specific directory becomes large, other directories may be squeezed.

In the technique disclosed in the above-mentioned document 1, the used capacity of the entire directory is monitored, but the used capacity of each directory is not considered. Further, in the technique disclosed in the above-mentioned Document 2, the number of documents in a directory is only monitored, and the used capacity of each directory is not monitored.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problem, and has as its object to provide a technique for monitoring the used capacity of each directory.

[0007]

According to the present invention, there is provided a method for automatically monitoring a used capacity of a directory according to the present invention, wherein individual directories of a storage device connected to a terminal device of a network are provided. This is a method for monitoring the used capacity of a directory and issuing a warning when the used capacity of any directory exceeds a set reference value.

As described above, according to the present invention, the used capacity of each directory is monitored individually for each directory. Therefore, when the used capacity of each directory exceeds the reference value, it is immediately detected and a warning is issued. Can be issued. As a result, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of a situation in which the used capacity of one directory becomes extremely large and presses another directory.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when monitoring the used capacity of the directory, a list of the used capacity of the monitored directory is provided, and the used capacity of the monitored directory is read from the list. This is a method of sequentially comparing the read used capacity with the reference value. By providing the list as described above, the used capacity of each directory can be easily monitored.

According to the third aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of notifying a warning to a user of a directory by e-mail. By sending a warning to an e-mail in this way, the warning can be easily notified even when the user is connected to the network and uses the directory of the storage device. As a result, individual directories can be easily managed.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for maintaining a directory list. Also,
According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, in maintaining a directory list, there is provided a method of updating the used capacity of each directory, or adding or deleting each directory. In this way, by monitoring the directory and maintaining the directory list, it is possible to easily grasp the directory usage capacity more accurately.

Further, according to the automatic monitoring device for the used capacity of the directory according to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the directory used as the monitoring target directory is obtained from the list of the used capacity of each directory of the storage device connected to the network terminal device. By reading the used capacity and sequentially comparing the read used capacity with the set reference value, a monitoring unit for monitoring the used capacity and a warning when the used capacity of any directory exceeds the reference value is issued. And a warning unit that issues a warning. With such a configuration, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of a situation in which the used capacity of one directory becomes extremely large and the other directory is squeezed.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Note that the automatic monitoring process of the directory used capacity in the following embodiment is executed by a computer controlled by a program. This program is provided, for example, by a recording medium. As the recording medium, for example, a magnetic disk, a semiconductor memory, or any other computer-readable medium can be used.

[First Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining an apparatus for automatically monitoring a directory capacity according to the first embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, in this embodiment, when monitoring the directory used capacity (usage status) of the disk storage device connected to the NT server, the disk storage device is provided with a list 10 of the directory used capacity. I have. Then, the monitoring unit automatically monitors the usage status of each directory in the NT server (A1 in FIG. 1). If the used capacity of any directory exceeds a preset reference value, the warning unit issues a warning (A2 in FIG. 1). Here, a warning message is sent to the operator of the NT server by e-mail.

Next, referring to the flowchart of FIG.
An example of a method for automatically monitoring the directory capacity in the first embodiment will be described. When monitoring the used capacity of the directory, a list of the used capacity of the monitored directory is prepared. Here, Table 1 below shows an example of a list of the used capacity of the directory.

[0016]

[Table 1]

In the list shown in Table 1 above, "wo
Five directories “k1” to “work5” are registered together with their used capacities. That is, "wo
The used capacity of the directory “k1” is “10 MB”. The used capacity of the directory of “work2” is “40 MB”. Also, "work
The used capacity of the directory “3” is “15 MB”. The used capacity of the directory of “work4” is “35 MB”. And "work
The used capacity of the directory “5” is extremely large as “120 MB”.

In automatic monitoring, as shown in FIG. 2, first, the directory name of the directory to be automatically monitored is obtained from the automatic monitoring directory list 10 (step B1). Note that all directories in the automatic monitoring directory list 10 may be monitored, or only a part of them may be monitored. Here, the "wo
All five directories “rk1” to “work5” are to be monitored, and their used capacity is acquired.

Subsequently, the used capacity of each directory is constantly monitored (step B2). Then, it is always determined whether or not the used capacity of each directory exceeds a reference value (a fixed used capacity) (step B3). Here, the reference value is, for example, 50 MB (or, for example, 20 M
B) and “work1” to “work5”
The used capacity of the five directories and the reference value are sequentially compared. Then, it is determined whether or not the used capacity of each directory to be monitored exceeds a reference value of 50 MB (or, for example, 20 MB).

As a result of the determination, if the used capacity of any directory does not exceed the reference value, the process returns to step B1, and the processes of steps B1 to B3 are sequentially repeated. On the other hand, if the result of the determination is that there is a directory exceeding the reference value, a warning message is output to the application log along with the directory name (step B4). In this embodiment, the used capacity of the directory of “work5” is remarkably “120 MB” and exceeds the reference value “50 MB”. For this reason, the warning means
A warning is issued that the used capacity of the directory of “work5” exceeds the reference value.

Subsequently, the warning unit notifies the warning message to the operator of the NT server by e-mail (step B5). The operator who has been notified of the warning message can reduce the used amount of the directory to an appropriate amount equal to or less than the reference value, for example, by performing management such as reducing the used space of the warned directory. In this way, by individually monitoring the used capacity of each directory, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of a situation in which the used capacity of one directory becomes extremely large and squeezes another directory.

Further, the directory exceeding the reference value is excluded from the objects to be automatically monitored (step B6). Then, the process returns to step B1 to continue monitoring the remaining directories to be monitored, and repeats the processing of the above steps.

[Second Embodiment] Next, referring to FIG.
A second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the second embodiment, in step B6 (see FIG. 2) in the above-described first embodiment, the directory exceeding the reference value is excluded from the automatic monitoring targets, and the directory list 10 is maintained.

In maintaining the directory list 10, the used capacity of each directory is updated, or each directory is added or deleted (C in FIG. 3).
1). Here, Table 2 below shows an example of a directory list of automatic monitoring targets before maintenance.

[0025]

[Table 2]

In the example shown in Table 2 above, "work
The three directories “1”, “work2” and “work3” are subject to automatic monitoring. And "wo
The used capacity of the directory “rk1” is “50 MB”. The used capacity of the directory of “work2” is “10 MB”. Also, "work
The used capacity of the directory “3” is “150 MB”.

Next, Table 3 below shows an example of a directory list of automatic monitoring targets after maintenance. The maintenance may be performed based on an instruction from the operator, or may be performed automatically. In the second embodiment,
The reference value is different from the reference value in the first embodiment. For example, in the second embodiment, the reference value is set to “150M
B ".

[0028]

[Table 3]

As shown in Table 3 above, "work1"
Used space of the directory from "50 MB" to "100
MB ". Further, the directory of “work2” has been deleted. Further, the directory of “work4” and its used capacity “20 MB” are added as new monitoring targets. In this way, by maintaining the list of directories to be automatically monitored, it is possible to easily grasp the more accurate directory usage capacity.

In the above-described embodiment, an example in which the present invention is configured under specific conditions has been described. However, the present invention can be variously modified. For example, in the above-described embodiment, an example has been described in which the used capacity is monitored by applying a uniform reference value to all the directories to be monitored. However, in the present invention, an individual reference value is set for each directory. The setting may be used to monitor the used capacity.

In the above-described embodiment, an example in which the reference value is set in advance has been described. However, in the present invention, the setting of the reference value may be changed during monitoring. In that case, for example, the reference value for a specific directory may be selectively changed.

In the above-described embodiment, one type of reference value is set for one directory. However, in the present invention, a plurality of levels of reference values may be set for one directory. The content of the warning may be changed depending on the level of the reference value.

[0033]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the used capacity of a directory is individually monitored for each directory. Therefore, when the used capacity of a certain directory exceeds a reference value, it is determined. It can be detected immediately. As a result, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of a situation in which the used capacity of one directory becomes extremely large and presses another directory.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus for automatically monitoring a directory capacity according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an automatic monitoring process of a directory used capacity in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram for explaining directory maintenance in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 List of directories to be automatically monitored

Claims (6)

[Claims] The present invention monitors the used capacity of each directory of a storage device connected to a terminal device of a network, and issues a warning when the used capacity of any directory exceeds a set reference value. How to automatically monitor the used directory space. 2. In monitoring the used capacity of the directory, a list of the used capacity of the monitored directory is provided, and the used capacity of the monitored directory is read from the list, and the read used capacity and the reference value are read. 2. The automatic monitoring method of the directory used capacity according to claim 1, wherein 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the warning is notified to a user of the directory by e-mail. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the directory list is maintained. 5. The automatic use of a directory used capacity according to claim 4, wherein the maintenance of the directory list is performed by updating the used capacity of each directory, or adding or deleting each directory. Monitoring method. 6. A used capacity of a directory to be monitored is read from a list of used capacity of individual directories of a storage device connected to a terminal device of a network, and the read used capacity and a set reference value are sequentially determined. A monitoring unit for monitoring the used capacity, and a warning unit for issuing a warning when the used capacity of any of the directories exceeds the reference value. .