The following section describes how to prevent disk space from filling up.

To prevent disk space from filling up

  1. Navigate to Basic Settings > Management > Disk space fill up prevention.

    Figure 54: Basic Settings > Management > Disk space fill up prevention

  2. Set maximum limit of disk utilization percentage in the respective field. When disk space is used above the set limit, syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) disconnects all clients. The default value is 90, and you can set values between 1-99.

  3. (Optional) To automatically start all configured archiving/cleanup jobs when disk usage goes over the limit, enable the Automatically start archiving option.

    NOTE: If there is no archiving policy set, enabling this option will not trigger automatic archiving.

  4. Click .

  5. Navigate to Basic Settings > Alerting > Health related traps and enable alert Disk usage is above the defined ratio.

    Figure 55: Basic Settings > Alerting > Health related traps — Enable alert

  6. Click .