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Alert on disk space for multiple volumes on a single server

Hi,

I have multiple sites with multiple servers each. Each server has different sized disks. I would like to alert when disk utilization is more than 90% for smaller disks and when disk utilization is 95% or higher for larger disks.

For volume sizes greater than or equal to 100gb send an alert if percent utilization is 95 or higher

For volume sizes greater than 15gb or less than 100gb send an alert if percent utilization is 90 or higher

For volume sizes less than or equal to 15gb send an alert if percent utilization is 85 or higher

I have multiple locations and multiple servers with multiple drives.

Is there a way to create an alert to cover all these?

I cant do fixed disk since that will alert on all fixed disks regardless of size.

Thank you.

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zkahl

You could add a custom property to the volumes. Then setup in the same alert "condition groups" that also point to that custom property. Just make sure the top trigger is set to "any". Or if you don't want to use custom property then you can use the "volume size" condition. You may also need to add a nested "condition group" to capture all the sizes you may want to trigger.

Zak Kahl

Loop1 Systems

http://www.loop1systems.com

monorailblue

We use something like this for our alerting using various custom properties using Advanced Alert Manager.

The following example shows any Windows server in production with a fixed disk starting with C:\ with free space equal to or less than 10%:

Trigger Alert when all of the following apply

SupressAlerts is equal to No

Purpose is equal to Prodution

AlertVolumes is equal to custom_property_name_here

VolumeType is equal to Fixed Disk

Volume Size is greater than 750000000

Volume Percent Available is less than or equal to 10

Trigger Alert when any of the following apply

Caption starts with C:\

Spincoach

Thank you for your answers. This is what I came up with.

Created a custom properties.

Disk size

Server

In custom properties (Volumes) i typed small, medium, large under the Disk Size property

In custom properties (Nodes) I typed the type of server this applied to in my Server property. (ie "Accounting Servers")

(I created this property since the thresholds only apply to this group of servers. Other groups of servers have different sizes and threshold requirements. ie. some groups only consider 1TB and above a large volume. Some groups consider a 250gb drive large.)

My alert looks like this:

Trigger Alert when all of the following apply

Volume Percent Available is less than or equal to 20

VolumeType is equal to Fixed Disk

Disk_Size is equal to Small

Server is equal to Accounting Server

In custom properties I typed in what I considered small, medium, or large for each disk

and also went to each server in Nodes and typed in what the server was used for.

Can anyone let me know if there is a better or a more efficient way to do this? Thank you for your input.

zkahl

If you didn't want to use custom properties you could add the following in each condition. Then they would happen automatically without adding the custom property values to new disks.

Volume Size is greater than xxx

Volume Size is smaller than xxx

Zak Kahl

http://www.loop1systems.com

glsmith67

I know this is an old thread but just thought I'd share we have something similar setup in our environment.

Drives less than 100 GB appear at 10% available.

Drives between 100 GB and 1 TB appear at 5% available.

Drives over 1 TB appear at 3% available.