I have done a setup utlizing an event processing/systems mgmt. software installed at the site. Whereas, setup the Celerra quota msgs to send SNMP traps the event processing host. It had intelligence/rules engine that could scrape the trap fields and build an email message for delivery to MS exchange platform.
It worked well.

You may want to explore any systems mgmt. software existing at your center that can receive and process SNMP traps, and interface with your email system.

are there any open source systems that can handle SNMP traps processing ? Have EMC folks seen customers use some open source solution ?

I have a home grown process setup, that is explained in the following thread. It has worked well for us.

http://forums.emc.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=576803򌴣

Thats not too difficult esp.if you can work out the EMail address from the user name

I have a skript to do that for NFS - I just need to check with the author if its ok to post it

Of course you can always turn to EMC Professional Service to implement something like this

If you do download it and plan to use it please post a quick reply here

Or if you have done a usefull modification to it

Here you go - attached is a skript that does implement quota exceeded EMail notification for NFS clients

The basic idea is:

First configure the Celelerra to generate events for hard and soft quota exeeded using nas_event for the UFS facility event number 4 and 5

Register the attached quota_handler skript to get called every time the event is raised
facilitypolicy 64,7
disposition range=4-5, exec "/home/nasadmin/quota_handler"

The quota_handler script grabs the event line and analyzes it

The event line contains the relevant user UID and file system.

In the attached script, the resolve() function uses NIS to resolve username from uid.
This function could be edited to use the local passwd file, ldap or any other source


Prequisites:
- sendmail is configured on the Celerra control station
- NIS is configured and the NIS passwd map contains the numeric UID's and user names
- the users login name as resolved by NIS can be used to as an EMail address

Please test it thoroughly before putting it into a production environment

Of course this comes with the usually disclaimers .... no liability .. no support

BUT EMC professional service is happy to offer assistence

I am planning to use this for CIFS only enviornement, if i can get it to work . For resolving uid to sid (username) i am thinking abt using
"server_usermapper server_2 -E -u /path/filename" (export can be run as cron)
and then using gawk to extract the uname and domain from there.

Any suggestions?? Once i get it to work i ll let everyone know.......

The server_usermapper -Export output is good for resolving uid to sid relationships, but be careful about the username. For server_usermapper the username is only a comment. Server_usermapper will only list the username of the sids which was choosen during the time the usermapper created the mapping between sid and uid.
if the winodws username was changed afterwards, server_usermapper will report the original one and not the actual one.