10.10 Generating Inventories for Directories or NCP Volumes

You can inventory NCP mounted volumes, or general file system directories or subdirectories as well as view graphs, profiles, reports, and key statistics about each of these items, including space usage trends.

IMPORTANT:To view the graphical displays in the inventory report, Sun Java must be installed on the computer you use to access Novell Remote Manager, and the browser must have Java and JavaScript enabled.

Generating this report can take a while, depending on the number of files and folders in the specified directory path.

With a few clicks, you get available space trend graphs; profiles for file types, file owner, last accessed, last modified, creation time, and file size; and links to specific reports for each of these. You can also customize the scan to look for specific file information.

The File Owner Profile gathers the ownership statistics from the NSS management interface. If the eDirectory user name is available from the NSS management interface, the file owner is reported as the eDirectory user name, such as jsmith. Otherwise, the owner is reported as the nobody user. You do not need to enable the users with Linux User Management (LUM) to get the file owner’s name.

This section includes the following tasks:

10.10.1 Generating a File Inventory Report

To generate an inventory report for a the entire server or any subdirectory including mounted NCP volumes:

  1. Click View File System Listing > Inventory.

    This opens the General File Inventory page. By default, the / (root) directory is selected.

    General File Inventory default page

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Click the Start Scan button to generate an inventory of the entire server (the default selection is the / [root] subdirectory).

    • Select a subdirectory to generate a report from by clicking the subdirectory_name links until the desired subdirectory appears in the Scan field, then click the Scan button.

      The /etc/xienetd.d subdirectory is selected for an inventory

    • If you are viewing the File System Listing page for the desired directory, you can generate the same reports by clicking the Inventory link on this page.

      A report similar to the following is generated:

  3. Click any of the links to the left of the Key Statistics table to move quickly to the generated information.

    or

    Create a custom report. See Generating a Customized Report.

10.10.2 Generating an NCP Volume Inventory Report

To quickly generate a inventory report for a mounted NCP volume:

  1. Use either of the following methods to generate an NCP Volume Inventory Report.

    • Select Manage NCP Services > Volume Inventory Reports, locate the NSS volume in the list, then click Create in the Generate Report column for the volume.

    • Select View File System > Volume Inventory, then select the name link of an available NCP volume in the list.

      This opens the Volume Inventory page that shows all mounted volumes available for inventory.

      Volume Inventory default page

  2. View the generated report.

    For example:

    Generated Volume Inventory Report

  3. Click any of the links to the left of the Key Statistics table to move quickly to the generated information.

    or

    Create a custom report. See Generating a Customized Report.

10.10.3 Viewing a Saved NCP Volume Report

An inventory report is saved when you run an inventory on an NCP volume. You can view the last saved report by going to the Manage NCP Services > Volume Inventory Reports page and clicking the View Last Report > Display option for the volume. The saved report provides the same statistics as running View File Systems > NCP Volumes Inventory. Graphics are not available in a saved report.

10.10.4 Emailing a Saved NCP Volume Report (OES 11 SP1 and Earlier)

You can email a saved NCP volume inventory report to addresses that are configured in the /etc/opt/novell/httpstkd.conf file. To send the report, go to the Manage NCP Services > Volume Inventory Reports page and click the Email Report > Send option for the volume.

IMPORTANT:This function works only for OES 11 SP1 and earlier.

10.10.5 Generating a Customized Report

After generating an inventory report for a volume or directory, you can create a customized scan to report more specific information and perform additional actions on the files such as move, copy, or delete files selected in the report.

Generating the Report

  1. Create the initial report as specified in Generating a File Inventory Report.

  2. In the generated report, click the Custom Directory Tree Scan link.

    A page similar to the following is returned.

  3. Type the specific search criteria in the Search Pattern field.

    *.* is the default entry.

  4. Select the desired settings in the File Owner Restriction drop-down box.

    None is the default selection.

  5. Select the check boxes to customize the report by Time Stamp or File Size restrictions.

    No restrictions is the default setting.

  6. Click Start Scan.

    A page similar to the following is returned:

Performing Actions on Files from Custom Reports

After a custom report is generated, you can perform the following actions on the files listed in the report.

Moving Selected Files

  1. From the generated report, select the check box to the left of each file that you want to move. If you want to move all the files in the list, click the Check All button.

  2. Specify the path where you want to move the selected files to in the field to the right of the Move Checked File To button.

  3. Click the Move Checked File To button.

Copying Selected Files

  1. From the generated report, select the check box to the left of each file that you want to copy. If you want to copy all the files in the list, click the Check All button.

  2. Specify the path where you want to copy the selected files to in the field to the right of the Copy Checked File To button.

  3. Click the Copy Checked File To button.

Deleting Selected Files

  1. From the generated report, select the check box to the left of each file that you want to delete. If you want to delete all the files in the list, click the Check All button.

  2. Click the Delete Checked Files button.

Opening or Downloading a File

  1. From the generated report, select the file_name link for the file you want to open or download.

  2. From the resulting dialog box, select Open With or Save to Disk, then click OK.

Managing Individual Files

  1. From the generated report, click the File Information icon.

  2. Perform the desired actions by entering the required information in the applicable field and clicking the applicable button.