Hello, A customer has asked for a daily report showing any of his Windows systems where the F: drive has < = 8GB of space. I'm not sure how to do this - can anyone provide an example? Thank you in advance!

You would think that would be an easy request, here are some thoughts from the top of my head (assuming it shouldn't involve daily manual work): Use an outside script to query the LM API to get the data and generate the needed report Create a Dashboard report with a dynamic table widget showing all F: drives with Bottom 10/25 for F: drive free space, or perhaps have the FreeSpace column uses an Expression like "if(le(FreeSpace,8589934592),FreeSpace/1024/1024,unkn())" and tell the customer to ignore the NaN entries. Create a custom DataSource that gets only data if it's <= 8GB (either directly or having it query LM), perhaps list each server as instances. Which you can then create a report on. Convince the customer to let the monitoring system do its job and save them time by letting it notify them when it drops below 8GB instead of getting let another daily email that will be ignored. :)/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" title=":)" width="20">

28 minutes ago, Mike Moniz said: Convince the customer to let the monitoring system do its job and save them time by letting it notify them when it drops below 8GB instead of getting let another daily email that will be ignored. :)/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" title=":)" width="20"> This.

5 minutes ago, Stuart Weenig said: This. Agreed, but as an MSP also, I know that is sometimes not an option or a tough fight at first. Especially for new customers and/or ones that haven't used monitoring systems before or have bad experiences.

13 minutes ago, Mike Moniz said: that is sometimes not an option or a tough fight at first Yep. Sorry, the sales guy in me did a backflip when you mentioned it. ? If I were to do it, i'd do the second to last option: clone the existing datasource and apply discovery filters to only discover only those drives that have less than 8GB of space. This opens the door for pretty much every solution (reports, dashboards, custom thresholds, etc.).

2 minutes ago, Stuart Weenig said: Yep. Sorry, the sales guy in me did a backflip when you mentioned it. ? Yeah, what is funny is that our account reps would do a backflip if I told them we will not do that :) Worth the flight long term though and usually works out once confidence is gained.

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Bruce_Berger

5 years ago

Need a filtered disk free space report

Hello,

A customer has asked for a daily report showing any of his Windows systems where the F: drive has < = 8GB of space. I'm not sure how to do this - can anyone provide an example?

Thank you in advance!

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Anonymous
5 years ago

18 hours ago, Bruce Berger said:

Stuart likes the 2nd to last idea posed by Mike, and coincidentally I headed down that road before I posted, but couldn't figure out how to filter the datasource for the <=8Gb. Can someone point me in the right direction?

@Mike Moniz has it just right. Setting up a discovery filter where "FreeSpace" is "LessEqual" to "8589934592".
Bruce_Berger
5 years ago
I got a chance to circle back and implement the custom DataPoint and It was easier than I thought it would be. Thank you both for the answers.
Anonymous
5 years ago

19 minutes ago, Bruce Berger said:

implement the custom DataPoint

Custom DataSource?
Bruce_Berger
5 years ago
Yes, DataSource. I was already headed down that path, but wasn't up to speed on discovery filtering. Happy that I added another trick to my toolbox.

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Need a filtered disk free space report

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