disksup

disksup

Module

disksup

Module summary

A Disk Supervisor Process

Description

disksup is a process which supervises the available disk space in the system. It is part of the OS_Mon application, see os_mon(6). Available for Unix and Windows.

Periodically checks the disks. For each disk or partition which uses more than a certain amount of the available space, the alarm {{disk_almost_full, MountedOn}, []} is set.

On Unix

All (locally) mounted disks are checked, including the swap disk if it is present.

On WIN32

All logical drives of type "FIXED_DISK" are checked.

Alarms are reported to the SASL alarm handler, see alarm_handler(3). To set an alarm, alarm_handler:set_alarm(