Hi All,

I'm trying to setup a logical disk space monitor that will alert for multiple critical thresholds on a single logical drive.

I would like to have for example, 15GB - warning, 10GB error, 5GB error.

Our servicedesk has a dashboard which shows "error" alerts for diskspace, when they see this, they contact on-call support. At times our on-call support can be slow to react, so we want another "error" alert to appear on the servicedesk dashboard when the threshold reaches 5gb, and that would prompt them to again contact the on-call support.

I do not want the 15gb warning to appear on the servicedesk dashboard.

My question is.... is it possible to have a second "error" threshold for a logical diskspace monitor at 5GB, when the 10GB alert is still open?

If so, can you please provide some detail?

Regards,

• Edited by Capt. Birdseye Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:44 PM

Hi!

You could achieve that by using the logical disk monitor that is enabled by default (the one that is checking for MB and % thresholds) for the first thresholds and additionally enable the other one for MB (or %) for the second ones:

Windows Server 20xx Logical Disk	Logical Disk Free Space
Windows Server 20xx Logical Disk	Disk Free Space (MB) Low
Windows Server 20xx Logical Disk	Disk Free Space (%) Low

More information about these monitors: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd262028.asp

Or, of course, create your own monitors.

Cheers,
Patrick

My suggestion as
1) Using built-in monitors, Windows Server XXX logical Disk Free Space (MB) Low, and a custom monitor to achieve your objective
2) For Windows Server XX Logical Disk Free Space(MB) Low monitor, you can override it by enable the monitor, set the Error Threshold to 10GB and Warning Threshold to 15GB.
3) Create a Consecutive Samples over Threshold Monitor with monitor target as Windows Server XXX logical Disk, object as LogicalDisk, Counter as Free Megabytes and Instance as Device Identifier(Windows Logical Hardware Component). The threshold value is greater than 5GB and number of samples is 4
4)  do not want the 15gb warning to appear on the servicedesk dashboard: Override Windows Server XXX logical Disk Free Space (MB) Low monitor by set it alert on critical state.
Roger

• Proposed as answer by Xin GuoMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, February 02, 2015 7:57 AM

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestions, i'll try to get to that today and report back.

Regards,