How do I increase the disk size on my VMware hosted Statseeker?

Before starting please ensure you have a recent backup stored on a separate host.

If you wish to VM Snapshot Statseeker before making any changes, please ensure Statseeker is shutdown correctly before taking the Snapshot as a "live" Snapshot will result in corrupted databases.

To increase the disk size on a VMware hosted Statseeker:

1. Shutdown Statseeker by either:
   
   As "admin" go to Administration GUI  > Statseeker Administration section > OS Configuration page > Edit mode (blue link - top right) then click the "Shutdown" button.
   
   or
   
   As Statseeker on the command line run the ssadmin tool (enter root password) then go to  "8. Operating System" then "3. Shutdown server".
   
   or
   
   Go to the command line and switch user to root and run "service statseeker.sh stop", wait for Statseeker's processes to stop, check there are no Statseeker processes running, and then type "shutdown -p now"
   
   e.g.

   statseeker$ su
   Password:
   
   # service statseeker.sh stop
   
   statseeker 77050 - - Stopping Statseeker
   Stopping base-cfg-monitor daemon
   2026-08-25 11:36:22 jcf-test-560 77070 base_fn_kill_pid Waiting for base-cfg-monitor (3935) to exit
   2026-08-25 11:36:23 jcf-test-560 77070 base_fn_kill_pid Process base-cfg-monitor (3935) has not exited.  Killing...
   Stopping process manager
   Stopping Email Scheduler
   Stopping NIM Thresholds
   Stopping NIM Email Bundler
   Stopping NIM report generators
    Stopping nim-calc-ud
    Stopping nim-calc-mis
    Stopping nim-calc-stats
   Syncing timeseries database lastn cache files to disk. This may take some time...
   Stopping NIM trap daemon
   Stopping NIM Syslog daemon
   Stopping NIM database processing daemons
   Stopping NIM Data Inserter Daemon
   Stopping nim-statd
   Syncing timeseries database data cache files to disk. This may take some time...
   Stopping NIM fastpoll SNMP poller
   Stopping NIM fastpoll daemon
   Stopping NIM task daemon
   Confirmed nim-cfg build finished
   Stopping LTM data processor
   Stopping LTM data collector
   Stopping local service process manager
   Stopping Dashboards server
   Reloading HTTP server to stop serving Statseeker
   Performing sanity check on apache24 configuration:
   Syntax OK
   Performing a graceful restart
   Shibboloeth daemon not running
   Validating the timeseries database. This may take some time...
   Setting timeseries database modes
    - Setting Timeseries Low Memory Mode - off
    - Setting Totals Cache Memory Mode - off
    - Setting Timeseries num threads - 2
    - Setting Read ahead per file - 50331648
    - Setting Read ahead min per file - 1048576
    - Setting Read ahead total - 1610612736
    - Setting Read ahead total upper limit - 3221225472
    - Setting Read ahead skip threshold - 1048576
    - Setting logging - 1
    - Setting log sync - 0
    - Setting log rotate time - 1800
    - Setting log rotate size - 2147483648
   Syncing remaining database files to disk. This may take some time...
   Killing nim-tdc processes
   Stopping time daemon
   Stopping remaining processes
   Restarting syslogd
   Starting syslogd.
   
   # ps -auwx | grep statseeker
   root         846   0.0  0.1  29516 15664  -  Ss   29Jul26     1:26.84 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -d /usr/local/statseeker/ss -f /home/sy
   root       76962   0.0  0.1  21492  8844  -  Is   11:35       0:00.03 sshd: statseeker [priv] (sshd)
   statseeker 76968   0.0  0.1  21492  9104  -  S    11:35       0:00.04 sshd: statseeker@pts/0 (sshd)
   statseeker 77631   0.0  0.1  44768 18732  -  I    11:36       0:00.07 httpd: RESTful-api (httpd)
   statseeker 77632   0.0  0.1  44768 18732  -  I    11:36       0:00.07 httpd: RESTful-api (httpd)
   statseeker 77633   0.0  0.1  44768 18728  -  I    11:36       0:00.07 httpd: RESTful-api (httpd)
   statseeker 77634   0.0  0.1  44768 18720  -  I    11:36       0:00.07 httpd: RESTful-api (httpd)
   statseeker 77638   0.0  0.1  40284 18592  -  I    11:36       0:00.05 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -d /usr/local/statseeker/ss -f /home/sy
   statseeker 77639   0.0  0.1  40284 18592  -  S    11:36       0:00.06 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -d /usr/local/statseeker/ss -f /home/sy
   statseeker 77640   0.0  0.1  40284 18592  -  I    11:36       0:00.05 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -d /usr/local/statseeker/ss -f /home/sy
   statseeker 76969   0.0  0.0  13636  3060  0  Is   11:35       0:00.01 -sh (sh)
   root       78078   0.0  0.0  12872  2132  0  S+   11:44       0:00.00 grep statseeker
   
   Stopping time daemon
   Stopping remaining processes
   Restarting syslogd
   Starting syslogd.
   
   # shutdown -p now
   Shutdown NOW!
   shutdown: [pid 3480]
   #
   *** FINAL System shutdown message from statseeker@jcf-test-560.statseeker.com
   ***
   
   System going down IMMEDIATELY
   
   
   
   System shutdown time has arrived
   
   
   

2. Then go to the VM configuration and check that Statseeker is shutdown and edit the settings to increase the disk size.
3. Then restart the Statseeker host from the VM management screen.

When the Statseeker host has restarted the new disk size should "automatically" be recognised and available.

This can be checked by logging on to the command line and using "df -h".

e.g.

statseeker$ df -h
Filesystem                  Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/gpt/os2                 15G    3.1G     11G    22%    /
devfs                       1.0K      0B    1.0K     0%    /dev
/dev/gpt/data               120G     38G     73G    34%    /home
/dev/md0                     26G     10M     24G     0%    /home/system/mnt
/home/system/mnt/tmp         26G     10M     24G     0%    /tmp
/home/system/mnt/var/tmp     26G     10M     24G     0%    /var/tmp

Or checking the Administration GUI  > Statseeker Administration section > System Overview Dashboard