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HBanks_D3
2 years ago

Alert Thresholds - Changing units Free Space datapoint on Volume Capacity

Hi All, I wanted to put a question to you all to see if you have any recommendations. We have several drives that we are monitoring where it doesn’t make sense to track the % used datapoint due to t...
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  • John_Mathews's avatar
    John_Mathews
    2 years ago

    Here’s a datasource that converts the bytes to gigs.  Maybe you can use that as a template.  MSFT reports it as bytes so that’s what WMI gets...   Basically a complex dp that divides by 1024.

    You can import this ds and apply tio to just one Windows server to see the ”effects”

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Anonymous
2 years ago

Yep. Just be careful: that module will be treated as custom by LM so it’s not supported and won’t get any updates. When/if the module toolbox gets to where it needs to be, if you just modified the existing one, you’d be able to bring in any updates and preserve the custom complex datapoint.