September 25, 2007

Here at Heroix headquarters we rely on a multiplatform network of servers supporting the critical applications required to run our business and development operations. And of course to ensure that everything is functioning as it should be, we use Longitude to monitor it all. Last week we received an alert from Longitude warning us that we were running low on disk space on our Exchange server. Like any business, we rely on email for everything from internal communication to sales inquiries to customer support. So in a case of “eating our own dog food” we experienced what it was like to have our own product save us from having any problems with business as usual.

The alert read:

The free space is critically low on disk C: on <<our Exchange server name>> at 1679 MB, or 9.82%.

If all disk space has been used, new files will not be able to be created which may result in critical applications failing. This disk should be reviewed to see if there are files which can be archived or removed in order to free up some space in the file system.