RE: [cobalt-users] HELP! /var full and can't login...

["Randall Meston" <linux@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Zeffie (or anyone else):

Does anyone have any opinion at which point a Cobalt Control Station
makes economic/business sense to add to the mix? E.g. How many Raqs in a
given system to be monitored/maintained? I can easily see the benefits
in having such a system for larger systems, 10/20 or more. 

I've been going over all the documentation for the SCCS, but it would be
nice to have some real world feedback from someone using one in
production.

At the moment I've only got three Raq XTRs to contend with, so I'm not
troubled by what I've got on the table at the moment. At the same time,
I'm trying to look forward to additional Raqs, and project a point where
the control station would be a good purchase, as opposed to the addition
of another Raq server.


Best, 

Randall

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Zeffie
Sent: 31 August 2002 22:22
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] HELP! /var full and can't login...


> We set the / partition to 2 GB, versus Cobalt 750 MB.
> We set the /var partition to 1 GB versus Cobalt 200 MB.
>    These values may be selected, (before the CD is built)
>
> We DO NOT have partition trouble!!!!


Actually your still in the same place.  It just takes longer for things
to go wrong.  /var and other things should be monitored.  I run a Sun
Cobalt Control Station Specifically so I can watch what my customers are
doing with their partitions, load, memory, and other services...  IE:
I'm always watching it and I get alerts to go check and or fix
something.  The result is a server that is well maintained and
monitored.  The partitions don't fill up because they are being watched.
The Sun Cobalt Control Station is very good at this.

You can read more about the Sun Cobalt Control Station at
http://www.zeffie.com/sun_cobalt_control_station_monitoring.html which
has the current links to Sun too.

So increasing the size of the partitions only results in wasted space...
granted I would like an extra 200 meg and I think this sounds like a
good way to get it.  Thanks for the idea.

Zeffie
http://www.zeffie.com/
Sun Cobalt Networks Control Station Monitoring Service
http://www.zeffie.com/sun_cobalt_raq_and_redhat_server_management_servic
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