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Conference decwet::winnt-clusters

Title:	WinNT-Clusters
Notice:	Info directories moved to DECWET::SHARE1$:[NT_CLSTR]
Moderator:	DECWET::CAPPELLOF

Created:	Thu Oct 19 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	863
Total number of notes:	3478

779.0. "Quota Manager from NTP software (anyone using this?)" by CSC32::V_STROUD () Wed Apr 30 1997 15:33

Hi.

I have a customer running Quota Manager from NTP software version 2.6.1.

They are running this on two clustered Prioris servers running clusters 1.0 SP2 and 3.5-1 SP5 of the operating
system.

They experienced problem with heavy disk activity when trying to put quotas on the shared storage. Does anyone
have this software running successfully?  

Thanks,

Vickie

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779.1	reformatted for readability	MPOS01::naiad.mpo.dec.com::mpos01::cerling	I'[email protected]	`Wed Apr 30 1997 17:07`	22
	<<< LJSRV1::ALT1:[NOTES$LIBRARY]WINNT-CLUSTERS.NOTE;2 >>> -< WinNT-Clusters >- ===============================================================================, Note: 779.0 Quota Manager from NTP software (anyone using t 0 replies CSC32::V_STROUD 13 lines 30-APR-1997 15:33 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi. I have a customer running Quota Manager from NTP software version 2.6.1. They are running this on two clustered Prioris servers running clusters 1.0 SP2 and 3.5-1 SP5 of the operating system. They experienced problem with heavy disk activity when trying to put quotas on the shared storage. Does anyone have this software running successfully? Thanks, Vickie
779.2	some more history	MPOS01::naiad.mpo.dec.com::mpos01::cerling	I'[email protected]	`Wed Apr 30 1997 17:16`	27
	Talking to Pat or Al at Fingerhut, right, Vickie? I have also been talking with them. I recommended that they try a couple of tests to see if Quota Manager doesn't like so many users coming in with the same user id. All users are accessing the share via the Guest acct. They are trying a couple tests around that as well as a couple things recommended by NTP. I, too, would like to know if anyone else is running Quota Manager, just so I can try to assuage some of their fears. This is a touchy situation with this Prioris cluster because we have had nothing but problems with it since it went in. They were using the Proteon Token Ring card. This would hang the system as it came from the factory because a BIOS setting was set wrong from the factory. MCS would replace the processor board, that happened to have the BIOS setting in the opposite manner, and it would work fine. Fingerhut had 5 Prioris systems that this happened to until engineering finally figured out what was happening. Some of these problems were able to be hidden from management (we have a good inside person), but this particular system was a corporate system; so anytime anything goes wrong, it gets high visibility. Happily, they haven't had any problems with the Alpha clusters they have installed, and now that we know what the problem is, we won't have the problem with the Prioris clusters. Thanks for any insight anyone might have to Quota Manager. tgc
779.3	Yes it is Fingerhut having problems --- so anyone using it successfully?	CSC32::V_STROUD		`Thu May 01 1997 18:41`	5
	Yes. It is Pat at Fingerhut. Let me know what you come up with and I will monitor this note as well.
779.4	Customer is not using it	CSC32::V_STROUD		`Mon May 05 1997 10:33`	10
	Customer has decided not to use the Quota Manager product. I did suggest though if he decided to try it again that he check with NTP to see if they place their driver in the SCSI chain. If so, similar, to FTDISK for fault tolerance it could be incompatible. Vickie
779.5		DECWET::CAPPELLOF	My other brain is a polymer	`Mon May 05 1997 15:50`	3
	I'll bet the quota product lays somewhere in the I/O stack in order to intercept calls to the filesystem. I suppose that could cause problems, similar to FTDISK and DISKPERF.