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Kelemvor
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9 months ago

Can I set a different threshold for C drive from D or E drive space?

Hi, Our Windows servers have the standard alerting based on Volume Capacity.  When Used Percent gets to 90%, we get a warning, 95% error, etc.  How could we change this so that the C drive uses a di...
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Kelemvor
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9 months ago

Hmm, I can’t find the Edit button, but here’s another use case.

When we do Windows Updates, if a server doesn’t have at least 10 Gigs of free space on the C drive, chances are, updates will fail.  I just put in a threshold to check for that, and I’m getting alerts from servers that have specialty drives that have less than 10 gigs free, that we don’t need to know about.

I’d like to setup a “Less than 10 gigs free on the C drive” alert, and leave the other Percentage based alerts in place for the other drives…

I ended up just creating a Clone ofthe winvolumeusage datasource, changing it to Name = C:\, and then setting a threshold based on free space.  Now the servers have two Volume_Capacity items under Disks, but it seems to work.  Is that the only way to split this out like that?

Thanks.