Staging an alert for Page File Usage (and it is not a volume)

NiewoehnerE

Just to clarify, our systems reside in a cloud center and the "pagefile" is actually a 10 GB volume in Windows.  90% of that volume is delegated to the Page File and using the c:\pagefile volume in "List Resources" only generates a false alert showing 90% of the "pagefile" is in use.  Instead, we use the Page File Usage that is tracked through Windows Server 2016 Services and Counters application template.  That provides accurate data on how much of the total pagefile allocation is actually in use.  The warning and alert flags work well from within the dashboard view, but I am having problems setting up an alert.  Would be nice to send an e-mail to administrators to take a look at page file usage levels.

Any suggestions?

mesverrum

Assuming that your perf counter component is called Page File that would do it to alert on a critical threshold violation.  Obviously you can make it more elaborate but that's the basic bones of it.