Hello, When I do an override on Logical Disk Space: I setup Warning MBytes Threshold for Non-System Drives and Error % Threshold for Non-System Drives Warning % Threshold for Non-System Drives and Error MBytes Threshold for Non-System Drives but as the size of the Drives are different I need to create one Monitor and/or one Group for each size of drive or by name as I am not sure I could test the size, isn't it? Thanks, Dom System Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 / Forefront Client Security / Forefront Identity Manager

The idea of this monitor is that it works for both small and large disks as this is an "AND" statement. Both the % as the actual MB free threshold have to be passed to get an alert. e.g. 5% and 1000mb free, means you get an alert on a disk smaller than 20GB at 5% and for bigger disks at 1GB free. Suppose you like 5% limit, but want to receive a critical sooner for larger disks. Just increase the mbytes threshold to 2000mb free or something (just keep in mind that now you'll get an alert at 5% for disk smaller than 40GB and bigger disk less than 2GB free) So just play around with the numbers to get limits that suit your organisation. Also keep in mind that disk thresholds are not meant for capacity monitoring. Disk reports should alert you about disks filling up weeks/months before you'll get an alert in SCOM. When you get an alert in SCOM you should do something about it right away. And there might be some specific disks monitor as well in other mp's (e.g. exchange monitors with the same rule exchange disks as well). When you do this, you probably end up having a few exceptions which can be overwritten to a specific object. Or when you have a specific disk which is always full (pagefile disk e.g.) on every server you have, you can create a group with diskobjects and overwrite the rule for that group. Rob Korving http://jama00.wordpress.com/

Hi Felyjos You could create a number of groups, for instance. Logical Disk (Server) Less than 10 000 MB Logical Disk (Server) Greater than 10 000 MB Less than 100 000 MB etc to match your needs. Then you use these groups for overrides on the Logical Disk Size monitors. or you only set the MB Thresholds high and rely on the Percentage. Regards Roger This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi. Have you seen Jonathan Almquist's article on logical disk monitoring? He also includes a handy spreadsheet that lets you figure out which % and MB thresholds you could use based on different disk sizes. http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonathanalmquist/archive/2009/04/04/logical-disk-free-space-monitor.aspxLayne

Please can someone provide some instructions how to setup the following: You could create a number of groups, for instance. Logical Disk (Server) Less than 10 000 MB Logical Disk (Server) Greater than 10 000 MB Less than 100 000 MB etc to match your needs. Then you use these groups for overrides on the Logical Disk Size monitors. or you only set the MB Thresholds high and rely on the Percentage. Regards Roger PMP Project Manager

Hello, What i will do is group the 9.99 together and the 29.99 together so I will use three groups as they have the same size and the same function as C: they most likely host the OS. You need to create your group using this article: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2009/11/05/making-groups-of-logical-disks-and-example-from-simple-to-advanced.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/11/17/opsmgr-logical-disk-free-space-alerts-don-t-show-percent-and-mb-free-values-in-the-alert-description.aspx then you will need you create your own monitors/rules to monitor the drives: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2009/11/24/writing-monitors-to-target-logical-or-physical-disks.aspx http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2012/08/server-os-mp-version-6069720-new.html Thanks, DomSystem Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 / Forefront Client Security / Forefront Identity Manager

Hello, You will need to create Group for your overrides... It could be per Disk Size effectively, it is what we did... even though we are using more the threshold for the megabytes than the percentage, but we separate the drives as C: System and other non-systems, also for cluster Q for quorums has its own group... L as for SQL logs has its own group etc... functions and size are two criteria which defined our groups. You will need both value Megabytes and Percentage... So in case you are really interrested only for the Megabytes as for a drive of 2 TB 10% free is still enough you will increase the percentage to 25 or 50 % so it will be always reach and then adjust the MB value to what you need for example 10 GB ... Thanks, DominiqueSystem Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 / Forefront Client Security / Forefront Identity Manager

I am looking for some steps to group the following on SCOM server1 C: 49.99gb 40.5gb server1 e: 9.99gb 9.36gb server2 C: 29.99gb 12.5gb server2 e: 9.99gb 9.92gb server3 C: 29.99gb 17.5gb server4 c: 29.99gb 13.2gb This is my steps to create a new group - Go to Authoriing - Management Pack Template - Group - Create new group - I am not sure what next i should do from here? I am on the right path, any quick guidelines would be appreciated. PMP Project Manager