Recommended free space on management server

[Srdjan_B]

A lot of our small customers are using SMS as log server too. Normally, we set automatic deletion of old logs when disk space falls below 5 or 10 GB (we increase these numbers before upgrades). It generally works everywhere.

However, after providing hcp output to Check Point support, we received recommendation to keep /var/log partition below 70% usage. For this customer, partition size is around 800GB, so it means 240GB would be "on standby", but not really used. For some other customers, unused space would be close to 1TB.

Any reason to require few hundred gigabytes of available space for /var/log? I did not find this recommendation documented anywhere else and I would like to clarify before we inform number of customers about this recommendation.

[Lesley]

I cannot figure out any reason why you want to have 240gb free in this dir.

Of course it ''depends'' because every setup is different en therefore I think it is only a recommendation in HCP and not a warning.

Many stuff is stored in this dir like backups / snapshot /cpuse stuff and they easily can take a lot of space over time. 

So in this case I think you can ignore this HCP finding. 

[the_rock]

Hey @Srdjan_B ,

To me personally, that logic of having that partition below 70% does not sound right at all. Maybe it would make sense say if customer was doing LOTS of logging, so its needed, otherwise, I dont think so.

This really falls into argument of "it really depends", as far as Im concerned.

Andy