Alert against all Windows fixed disks except one

Hello all

I am after some help creating an alert for whenever any of our Windows server fixed disks (except a particular disk) go over 95% capacity. All of our Windows servers are VMs and we have them replicated between sites so we have the pagefiles on a dedicated disk that does not require replication or alerting on them as they will often run at >95% capacity. So far I have the below settings that generate an alert for any fixed disk successfully however I am unsure how to prevent the alerts on the disks containing the pagefiles. On most servers this drive is the K:\ drive and labelled as PageFile within Windows.

I have tried suppressing using "Caption contains K:\" and a few others but this seems to stop any alert from being generated for other fixed disks as well

Any ideas on how I should do this?

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zackm

Add a custom property for all of your fixed volumes that you don't want to alert on and then use that as a limitation for your alerts

Trigger Alert When ALL of the following apply    Vendor = Windows    VolumeType = FixedDisk    VolumePercentUsed > 95%Trigger Alert When NONE of the following apply    CustomProperty IS 'ABCXYZ'

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zackm

Add a custom property for all of your fixed volumes that you don't want to alert on and then use that as a limitation for your alerts

Trigger Alert When ALL of the following apply    Vendor = Windows    VolumeType = FixedDisk    VolumePercentUsed > 95%Trigger Alert When NONE of the following apply    CustomProperty IS 'ABCXYZ'

rotanner

Thanks Zack

Worked like a charm. In fact I just did the following in the end and it works without issues