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I need to confirm all servers are monitored for drive space, especially when a new drive is added

We use network performance monitor drive space. Generally, it works pretty good however recently someone added a new drive to a server that was already being monitored but that drive was never picked in SolarWinds. We ran out of space and we never got an alert. Management was very upset. How can I ensure all drives, including new ones, get monitored. I do know our discovery is working. Someone recently added a test server and NPM discovered it and a day later reported a drive was running low, so I know discovery is working for new servers but what if someone adds a new drive to an existing server?

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cnorborg

Rerun discovery on all servers periodically and maybe filter via SWQL to find new drives? Either that or just import anything new. I'm pretty sure you can set up volumes to be ignored if there are some you don't want automatically added.

Or, if NCM is gathering inventory on the devices, you could probably run a report to see what drives are in the NCM inventory vs. those that are being monitored?

oithim_yew

Try to explore on the Discovery Central features. But in the end, it was more of an operational and/or process issues to me. Even with this enabled, ones might missed to add this to the monitoring. Automate this (if possible) will create another issues.