Chapter 8. Monitoring the local disk to shut down Directory Server on low disk space

Procedure

1. Enable the disk monitoring feature, set a threshold value and a grace period:

   # dsconf -D "cn=Directory Manager" ldap://server.example.com config replace nsslapd-disk-monitoring=on nsslapd-disk-monitoring-threshold=3221225472 nsslapd-disk-monitoring-grace-period=60

   This command sets the threshold of free disk space to 3 GB (3,221,225,472 bytes) and the grace period to 60 seconds.

2. Optional: Configure Directory Server not to disable access logging or delete archived logs:

   # dsconf -D "cn=Directory Manager" ldap://server.example.com config replace nsslapd-disk-monitoring-logging-critical=on

3. Restart the instance:

   # dsctl instance_name restart

Procedure

1. Navigate to Server Server Settings Disk Monitoring.

2. Select Enable Disk Space Monitoring. Set the threshold in bytes and the grace period in minutes:

   

   This example sets the monitoring threshold to 3 GB (3,221,225,472 bytes) and the time before Directory Server shuts down the instance after reaching the threshold to 60 minutes.

3. Optional: Select Preserve Logs Even If Disk Space Gets Low
4. Click Save Settings.
5. Click Actions in the top right corner, and select Restart Instance.