RE: Domini on iSeries and UDFS

My experience of today's need for e-mail is that it's essential and that
corporate will not tolerate it being unavailable.  If this is a true
statement then if you put the UDFS in say ASP2 and is set not overflow to
ASP1 when you get Spammed or you have attachment issues, then in effect you
have stopped e-mail from flowing.   Although, you have prevented the system
from becoming unavailable but in effect email is still not working.  I'm
assuming (sorry it you mentioned this) that that Domino is the only
application on this server. 

How about monitoring for ASP(x) size and paging you when it hits a threshold
(say 70%). Thus giving you time to deal with the problem before it get
critical.  We currently do this at our shop for all our ASPs.

My suggested would be buy large amounts of DASD and monitor for a fairly low
threshold in what ever ASP you decide to store the mailboxes. 

Good luck...

Ken H.

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Ken,

Believe me. I like Simple.  Reminds me of myself.  I guess what I'm 
eluding to is, just when you think that you have enough space in you 
system ASP, somebody could spam enough people with a moderately sized 
email and all of a sudden you don't have a nice cushion.  Even worse, 
no cushion.  With alot of email databases, it wouldn't have to be a 
large attachment and folks might not exceed their email database size.
We will be implementiong Unified Messaging as well with our Domino 
Servers.  That allows all phone (Voice over IP) to be saved in your 
email inbox.  So, while the average voice mail is less than a MB, I 
could grow fast.
I do agree with you about rentention as well as training to be 
essential to managing space.

m.

>>
>>
>Here's my $.02 worth.  KISS...  I think you all know the acronym.  If 
all
>your doing is trying to control how much DASD the Domino objects are 
taking
>in the IFS why make your system more complicated.  You'll still have 
the
>same problem on a system harder to support.  Buy more DASD is aways a
>option.
>
>I would think that a good policy on how much space a user can store 
on the
>server is the first hurled to cross.  Maybe have them store part of 
their
>email locally on the PC.  I do believe you can set storage limits on 
mailbox
>but this should only be done if a policy is in place first.
>
>Ken H.