Netware Server out of space

[BCinSC]

Prior Thread

About ready to ditch and go Microsloth (oh the horror) because this is more administration than this little office needs. Is Novell even updating Netware anymore? Console is kludgy in my opinion. Anyway, I can't find anything that's causing the out of space issue - no print queues, no mailboxes, no programs, not data files being put there incorrectly. I wish I knew more about this version (my main experience was with 3 and early 4), but there's just not enough businesses here using it to justify.

 

[Nothinman]

Is Novell even updating Netware anymore?

Of course they are, although future versions (starting with 7 I think) will be Linux based so technically it won't be NetWare but will just be NCP, NDS, etc on top of Linux.

Console is kludgy in my opinion.

It's java, of course it is.

but there's just not enough businesses here using it to justify.

If it's just a file and print server, what other businesses use is irrelevant. And it shouldn't be too hard to poke round with explorer and find out where the really big files are.

 

[BCinSC]

You mention explorer, but I don't see that on the X-Server menu. I do see File Manager, but nothing happens when I click it.

 

[Nothinman]

I mean at your workstation, you can get to all of the files via the network.

 

[BCinSC]

OK. Will login as Novell Administrator from a workstation and check it out. Any recommendations for things to look for?

 

[Nothinman]

Off hand, just probably the largest files modified in the last few days. If it's running out of disk space continually then something must be growing somewhere.

 

[ScoobMaster]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
OK. Will login as Novell Administrator from a workstation and check it out. Any recommendations for things to look for?

Authenticate to your server through a workstation with the Novell Client as either Administrator or a user with equivalent rights. Launch Windows explorer and browse to "My Network Places", "Novel Connections", [your tree], [your context], [your server] and you should see the mounted volumes.

Right-click on each volume and then use the "properties" menu to check how much free space is left on each volume.

 

[Relayer]

You can use spacemonger to find the big files and or folders.

http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html

 

[NetWareHead]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Is Novell even updating Netware anymore?

Of course they are, although future versions (starting with 7 I think) will be Linux based so technically it won't be NetWare but will just be NCP, NDS, etc on top of Linux.

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Actually Netware 7 will be released under the Open Enterprise Server. Basically you pick what services you need )DHCP, DNS etc...) and then you will have the option of running them on a netware kernel or a linux kernel. Netware will always be Netware, its just now you have a choice of what OS you want to run the services. Although I do think NetWare will evetually be phased out in favor of linux, this probably won;t happen for quite some time.

 

[NetWareHead]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
Prior Thread

About ready to ditch and go Microsloth (oh the horror) because this is more administration than this little office needs.

You think an M$ server won't need administration either? Just the sheer amount of patches released by MS is more maintenance than I care for. In my experience my netware servers just run and run until a hardware failure ruins the uptime. Anyway, did you try purging all the files like I suggested in the prior thread? What kind of volume is this, traditional or NSS?

 

[Nothinman]

Netware will always be Netware,

If it's Netware services running on Linux then it's not Netware IMO.

 

[BCinSC]

Ok, found the culprit: Health.log in SYS:system directory is 2.5GB!!!! How do I pare that down without abending?

 

[islandtechengineers]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Off hand, just probably the largest files modified in the last few days. If it's running out of disk space continually then something must be growing somewhere.

at one of my previous jobs, an employee (19 year old receptionsts) was storing mp3s on the netware servers!!

"Ok, found the culprit: Health.log in SYS:system directory is 2.5GB!!!! How do I pare that down without abending?"

why dont you upgrade the hardRives? their pretty cheap these days!

 

[Nothinman]

at one of my previous jobs, an employee (19 year old receptionsts) was storing mp3s on the netware servers!!

We found a user with 30G of MP3s on a server recently. That prompted us to count the total MP3s on all the home directory servers and we found an additional ~40G of MP3s.

 

[BCinSC]

Ultra SCSI drives are still expensive, especially a pair for RAID1. These are fairly decent 10KRPM 18GB units. They are only using 1GB on Data volume, but I don't know if I can adjust partition sizes.

Why is HEALTH.LOG so dang large? How do I contain it?

 

[Karellan]

Health.log is probably generated by a Dell support nlm. Check your autoexec.ncf file for an .nlm that looks like it might be creating the log file. Compaq servers have something similiar. Generally speaking, from 8 yrs experience, you can delete a log file and it will be recreated as a new zero length file after you restart the server. You might check to see if the nlm generating the file has a console screen you can check to start and stop logging. However, if this huge file is a recent development, it may mean there is a problem somewhere in the server.

 

[BCinSC]

Of course 2.5GB is too large to open with most word processors, certainly too much for notepad and wordpad, to figure out what problem might be.

 

[Linflas]

Just clear the log. Here's the Novell Documentation on it.