I'm trying to keep my alerts clean. I would like to monitor just the hard drive space of specific servers. I can't seem to find the right template or create a custom template to match my needs.
Where am I missing it?
Thanks in advanced!
-Stephen
I added a Custom Property to my volumes called "Mute", but you could do the opposite and make it "Alert", then in you alert, you would add the condition that custom Property "Alert" = "Yes". Now every volume you want to alert on would need that property set to Yes. But if you do the "Mute" way to include all except the ones you want to mute, make sure to create a condition group that uses any and is for "Mute" = "No" or "Mute" is "empty".
Leon did a great thread on this here.
I am a noob to this software. My company just purchased it this past week. We had the IP monitor and I ran the migration tool over to APM, then upgraded to SAM. It created the nodes but I am having to manually create the PING, HTTP, and Drive Space alerts. I was able to find the right stuff for HTTP and PING. I read through that thread by Leon but it didn't really add up for me. I guess that I need it sent to me in dumby terms..... Where do you create the "mute" property and why can't I see the drive space on any of my nodes volumes? I think that I'm missing something completely or I'm just not understanding this whole thing. Thanks for the patience!
To create custom properties, you need to use the fat client, TS to the orion server, start, programs, solarwinds orion, grouping and access controll, custom properties editor. Add, build a custom..., Add Property to "Volumes", put in the name, then I would use with the "Yes/No" (text would work too). Then the alert would look something like (Hey, I didn't use Mute on volumes!):
To see the current space, you could run a report, or go to the specific node's details web page and it should be on there. Stuff could even be in the Top 10 list (That's what I use a lot).
Now that makes more sense! I am going to try this out today. Does this alert run for every node or do you have to specify some where? Is the "Volume Space Available" alert able to monitor percentage rather than a specific GB size and does this work for all drives on the server (C:\,E:\,F:\,etc....)?
