Most iSeries System Administrators have set up messaging that automatically sends notification when disk free space approaches dangerous minimums. In most shops, these minimum thresholds are seldom, if ever, reached. And gradual reduction of disk free space is easy to track through periodic reporting.

But when iSeries systems are designed to allow end-user queries, the potential for extremely rapid disk consumption exists. Sometimes free space is consumed so rapidly that by the time traditional notification techniques are invoked, it’s already too late…and the iSeries begins a forced IPL.

The Centerfield Technology Solution? disk/HUNTER.

disk/HUNTER is a one-of-a-kind product because, unlike other disk space products, provides real-time analysis of sudden increases in disk use. Reports generated by disk/HUNTER allow IT to see the root cause of the increase. With specific information about the increased disk utilization, operations can choose how to address the problem with the confidence they are working on the correct job and offending objects.