WIKI: How to Monitor Disk Free space in devices?

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Monitors changes in the available free spaces in the disk and also triggers the alert when the specified conditions are met .

Step [1]: To set Monitoring, Go to ITSM → Configuration Templates ->Profiles.
Step [2] : choose a profile of you device and if the profile does not exists create new profile and continue .

Step [3] : Follow below options ,

  • Add Monitoring Column by Clicking “Add a Profile Section “ -> Monitoring .
  • Go to Monitoring tab -> “Add Monitoring “ and Enter the Name for monitoring and its Description in their respective fields.

Step [4] : Go to “General Tab “ , configure alert settings as below,

  • Choose desired action from “ the trigger an alert if “ drop down
    • Any of the conditions are met - when any of the condition that you have mentioned is met
    • All of the conditions are met - when all of the conditions that you have mentioned are met
  • Apply the custom alert created for the monitoring using “Use Alert Setting. Example : Free disk space.
  • The remedy action for the triggered alert can be set by technician by either opting to "Take no action" or choose run below procedure for fix using 'Auto remediation alert'.
    • Take no action - No remedy action are defined for the triggered alert .
    • Run Below Procedure - Assign procedure as a remedy for the triggered alert by entering the name in the respective field.Example : Clean Up Downloads folder in all User Accounts .
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Step [5] : After configuring General tab ,Go to “Condition Tab “ : To add condition for monitoring the free disk space in devices follow below steps,

  • Click " Add Condition " and select Disk
  • Select Parameter
    • Free space left on system drive - The alert triggers when the free spaces left on system drive reached the mentioned condition .
    • Free space left on all drivers - The alert triggers when the Free space left on all drivers reached the mentioned condition .
    • Free space change on system drive - The alert triggers when the Free space change on system drive reached the mentioned condition .
  • Set the conditions
    • More than - Select this condition to trigger alert if greater than specified value reached.
    • Equals to - Select this condition to trigger alert if parameter equals specified value.
    • Less than - Select this condition to trigger alert if parameter value down to less than specified value.
    • More than or equals to -Select this condition to trigger alert if parameter equals specified value as well as exceeds the specified value.
    • Less than or equals to -Select this condition to trigger alert if parameter equals specified value as well as down to the specified value
  • Value - The Maximum or minimum value of file size can be entered . Example : 55 KB / 55 MB / 55GB
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Step [6] : Click ‘Create’ and the monitoring parameters will be listed.

Step [7] : Click ‘Save’ to apply changes.

Step [8]: Go to Devices -> Device List .

Step [9]: Select a Device . Go to Manage Profiles -> Add profiles -> select a profile name and save .