Monitoring storage space.
Via check_disk plugin (offered by Nagios exchange) various types of disk checks can be performed like - disk usage, inode utilization, file count, RAID array status, directory size etc.
Such a check can be included in basic monitoring of every host added.
Such kind of checks share various benefits -
- Failed job detection.
- System upgrade planning.
- Storage system problem detection.
- Reduction on risk of unexpected server crash.