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StorageCharts2 Installation and Usage

PICCORO Lenz McKAY edited this page Jan 12, 2017 · 1 revision

This app enables a menu entry to see usage statistics for storage usage. This are made in two ways: own usage of storage per user for normal users and all usage of all server (local disk only) for admin users.

StorageChats2 requeriments

None in special, but some cpu workload have been reported, the problem its poor DBMS engine such as Mysql, see similar issues at OC bugtracker. Now that SC2 supports postgresql correctly its recomended that use the postgresql, due many issues are at OC core related to performance when using the Mysql or MariaDB databases engine!

Installation

normal procedure setup

  1. Enable it the app store in config.php and go to apps menu. If app are now show in list so then download the app from app.owncloud.com or from releases, and uncompres it into "/apps" directory of u'r installation, and thens go to "Applications" in menu (loged in as admin user).
  2. Enable the "StorageCharts2 App" ( Apps > StorageCharts2 App [3rd party] > Enable )
  3. Now refresh the screen and a Charts entry in menu will appears.
  4. Plugin has two mode of work, for normal users only own usage statistics will be represent. For admin users all usage will be displayed with users differenciations. On large environment may occur issues.

some unninstall tips

For Manual Removal or Updating the appliation remove it from the apps-folder in owncloud and execute the following sql commands:

 DELETE FROM owncloud.oc_appconfig WHERE appid="storagecharts2"; 
 DELETE FROM owncloud.oc_preferences WHERE appid="storagecharts2"; 
 DROP TABLE owncloud.oc_storagecharts2;
 DROP TABLE owncloud.oc_storagecharts2_uconf;

After that you can simply reinstall the app

USage

Go to the menu entry and see tree graphics.

The first graph is a cake that represents what used regarding the total available only shows that used for the user, regarding the total space for all users. The second is increased activity compared use, and the third time is compared.

You can modify the order by drag and drop from list filter.