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Tell me about the drive monitor

 

Drive monitor functions

The drive monitor is used to monitor the hard disk space of the connected drives.

The software can come to a complete stop if a hard disk in the system runs totally out of space. For that reason, it is important to make sure on time that space is freed up again on drives that are utilized extensively. In particular the drive containing the SpoolDir where the jobs are stored always needs some additional storage capacity as a kind of "reserve".

To open the drive monitor, select Drive Monitor from the Administration section.

If the Delete Jobs option in the Job handling panel is disabled, no automatic deletion is effected at a certain predefined usage of the drive so that the drive monitor functionality is of especial importance. You have to manually delete older and space-consuming files.

Note: You can only call up the Drive monitor when you are logged in as Admin or User. You must be logged in as Administrator to edit the settings.

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Drive monitor display

By default, the drive monitor display comprises all drives of the server. It shows not only the drive letter but also the total storage capacity of the drive as well as the free disk space.

The amount of disk space occupied is shown both in percent and by a level indicator.

 

 

Sufficient disk space is still available.

 

The limit set is almost reached; if possible, data ought to be deleted from the drive.

 

The drive space limit has been reached; all hot folders and virtual printers are set to Hold and no new jobs are sent to the spool directories if the limit of the spool directories' drive was reached.

You are still able to store files in the hot folders but these are no longer sent for further processing.

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Hide/show drives in the Drive monitor

You can separately define for each drive whether you want it to be displayed in the drive monitor. This option should always be enabled for all "critical" drives of the server, in other words, for drives containing spool directories, hot folders or components of the system software.

Troublefree drives can be hidden for better overview, meaning that all data are displayed while the level indicator is shown in gray and the limit function is disabled.

Click the button in front of the drive display to show the settings. Now select under Monitor drive whether you want to have this drive displayed or not.

Save the changed setting by clicking OK.

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Limit specification

Click the button in front of the drive display to show the settings. Under Alert Value, the limit value of remaining disk space can be entered. If the limit is exceeded, no new jobs are accepted for processing. Save the changed setting by clicking OK.

The limit also defines when a message is sent to those Drive monitor warnings recipients set under Notification Recipient > Event.

If the limit of one of the drives relevant to the software is exceeded, the following activities are set to hold:

  • All hot folders are stopped. This means that files can still be copied to the hot folders but that they are no longer transferred to the spool directories.
  • The virtual printers are no longer available.

Any jobs that are currently being processed will continue to be processed.

The stopped functions are only released again when the occupied disk space of the monitored drive falls below the set limit by at least five percent. For example, if the limit was set to 80%, the functions are released when at least 75% of the drive are available again.

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