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Multiple Disks idle percent on one chart

We are trying to move away from using SCOM in some areas. One of the things that they did was they had 4 different charts or a group of servers: 4 Day CPU %, 14 Day Disk Free Space %, 14 Day Disk Idle %, and 14 Day Memory %. The 14 day is being changed to 7 days, but the only one I am having issues with is the Disk Idle. I can not find how chart/graph this for a group of servers. I thought that I may have to create a custom poller for this, but I am not sure how to do that since all the servers are Windows using WMI.

Any suggestions?

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aLTeReGo

Disk Idle is typically not an interesting metric that you can base decisions upon or pinpoint problems. Better disk metrics is the queue length (how many I/Os are queued up waiting to be read/written to disk) and Disk Sec/Transfer (which is a cryptic way of saying the measurement of latency reading or writing to disk. If something is reading/writing to disk all the time, but doesn't queue I/O or is impacted by high latency, then is it a problem?

You can easily accomplish what you are describing by adding a Custom Chart resource to any Summary View.

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sans

I would have to ask the team if that would be alright. As you know, sometimes users don't know what they really want.