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Navigate to the Triggers tab and click on the New button:Д¬lick on the New button and select At startup for Begin the task and ensure that Enabled is selected:

#Raid monitor server 2008 windows

With the data collector configured, the next step is to set the collector to start after server restarts so begin by navigating to Task Scheduler вЂ“> Task Scheduler Library вЂ“> Microsoft вЂ“> Windows вЂ“> PLA, right click on the collector task and select Properties:

Navigate to the Alert Action tab and select the Log an entry in the application event log: With the Data Collector Set account verified, notice how a new collector is now set up:Д¬ontinue by right clicking on the data collector and choose properties: Under the General tab, ensure that Run As is the account you wanted to run this Data Collector Set as: ItвЂ™s not necessary to verify the Run As account but I like to double check just to be sure so right click on the new Data Collector Set and select Properties: Unless you have restrictions on the service account where the default is SYSTEM, proceed by click on Finish: Proceed with clicking the Next button when youвЂ™ve configured all of the drivesвЂ™ thresholds: This simply means IвЂ™m setting a threshold to 2GB for each of the drives. Notice how IвЂ™ve set the Alert when to Below and the Limit to 2048. Note the logical drives are listed under the Instances of selected object so select the ones youвЂ™d like to monitor:Д¬licking on OK will bring you back to the Create new Data Collector Set window.

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I personally prefer Free Megabytes because the drive IвЂ™m monitoring is a 1TB drive and setting up a hard threshold based on a constant value seems to make more sense: YouвЂ™ll find various counters in this section and whether you prefer to use % Free Space or Free Megabytes will be based on the type of application and drive size youвЂ™ll be monitoring. Select Performance Counter Alert and click Next:

In the Create new Data Collector Set, type in a name for this collector, select Create manually (Advanced) and click Next: Right click on the User Defined node and select New вЂ“> Data Collector Set: The first step in setting the monitoring up is to open Performance Monitor and create an alert so begin by opening up the application in Administrative Tools then navigate to Data Collector Sets вЂ“> User Defined: HOW TO: Configure a Low Disk Space Alert by Using the Performance Logs and Alerts Feature in Windows Server 2003Д¬onfigure Windows Server 2008 to Notify you when Certain Events OccurД¬reate a Data Collector Set to Monitor Performance Counters Note that Microsoft has various articles that covers setting this up so IвЂ™ll include some of the links here: Note that this feature is also available in Windows Server 2003 but this blog post will just cover 2008. When this situation comes across my deployments, I simply use the native Performance Monitor feature of Windows Server 2008 R2 to monitor and send an email alert to email addresses. IвЂ™ve found myself in plenty of situations where I need to set up a quick way of monitoring free drive space on various versions of Windows Server because I either donвЂ™t have access to the monitoring application that the company uses, lack of licenses for the monitoring application to add the new host or the company simply does not have monitoring.

#Raid monitor server 2008 software

You would like to monitor free drive space on a server with the native features of Windows Server 2008 R2 without having to purchase monitoring software such as SolarWinds, SCOM, etc.