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Dynamically Exclude Page File Drives from being Monitored

In the world of standard server builds, it is quite common now to have a dedicated drive just for the system page file.  Usually this drive is partitioned to be just big enough to store the pagefile which means under normal monitoring it will constantly be in alarm. 

Create a new group, give it a name and select a management pack then select Dynamic Members.  Click Create/Edit Rules and create the following query:  ( Object is Windows Server 2008 Logical Disk AND ( Device ID Equals O: ) AND True ) .  Obviously change the object to Windows Server 2000 or 2003 Logical Disk as required and change the value of the device ID for the relevant drive letter.

 Query Builder

Once the query is in place, create the group.  To confirm your new group has populated with the correct objects, right click your new group and select View Members.

 Managed Objects

Hopefully your group will be populated with all your page file logical disk objects which means the group can now be used to override the logical disk free space monitors.  Populating the group dynamically also means that as servers are added and removed from your management group, the drive objects in the group will be automatically updated.

As usual, I hope this is helpful.

 

Posted Feb 24 2009, 10:00 PM by David Allen MVP
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MarkB2 wrote re: Dynamically Exclude Page File Drives from being Monitored
on 03-10-2009 12:44 PM

Hi David

Thanks for the article. Would you apply this override to just the Monitors, or would you apply it to Rules as well?

Thanks

Mark

David Allen MVP wrote re: Dynamically Exclude Page File Drives from being Monitored
on 03-11-2009 9:42 PM

Hi MarkB2,

That depends on your requirements.  The rule just collects the data so you can report on it; as it is unlikely you will report on page file drives you could apply the override and save some space in your DW.

Overriding the monitor is the most important as the monitor will affect the health state.

Hope that helps.

David