File system compliance checking

A computer program product for checking file system compliance, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

• receiving a plurality of compliance rules corresponding to a file system of a production system operating and a performance profile of the production system;
• collecting, by a collector operating according to a model of performance, file system meta data from the file system, the collector storing the file system meta data in a storage device, wherein the collection consumes resources of the production system;
• analyzing, by an analyzer according to the model of performance, the file system meta data stored in the storage device using the plurality of compliance rules to determine at least one compliance deviation of the file system;
• profiling at least one parameter of the production system during the collecting and the analyzing;
• throttling, in response to the at least one parameter of the production system and the performance profile, the collector and the analyzer independently of one-another;
• and
• adjusting the model of performance including a schedule for each of the collection and the analyzing, and a maximum number of nodes of the file system that can be read by the collector before a pause of the collection, in response to profiling of the least one parameter of the production system.

A system configured for checking file system compliance comprising:

• a production system comprising a processor and a memory;
• an analyzer comprising a system data store;
• and
• at least one collector disposed remote from the system data store and configured to operate according to a model of performance including a value for each of a maximum number of nodes of the file system that can be read by the collector before a pause of the collector, and a schedule for the collection of the file system data, each collector gathering file system data from the production system and storing the file system data at the system data store,
• wherein the analyzer is configured to operate according to the model of performance and analyze the file system meta data using a plurality of compliance rules corresponding to the production system to determine at least one compliance deviation,
• wherein the at least one collector is throttled, independently of the analyzer, in response to a performance metric of the production system and a performance profile of the production system, and
• wherein the collector and the analyzer consume resources of the production system.