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.

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.

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.