Check disk space quota-to-capacity trends within a moving time frame. See periods where disks are trending towards full, disk capacity drops due to failure, and more.

Configure a disk threshold:

  • Name. Used in the Threshold library and the title on the Alert Center Dashboard.
  • Notification Policy. (Optional) Select the notification policy to apply to this threshold. The policy initiates notifications when an item is outside the configured threshold limits.
  • Threshold Check Interval. Enter a time interval for Alert Center to check the WhatsUp Gold database for items that are out of the threshold limits.

    Automatically resolve items no longer out of threshold. Select this option if you want Alert Center to automatically resolve items when they return to the value within the threshold limit.

Note: Notification policies are optional for most thresholds. If you do not select a notification policy, no notifications are generated for the threshold, but a dashboard report listing the out of threshold items still appears on the Alert Center Home page.

Add Condition Rules:

  • Disk (average). Use the controls provided to choose either Utilization or Free Space, then either Exceeds or Falls Below, and finally a value for an average disk space expressed as either a percentage or quantified amount in gigabytes or megabytes.
  • Duration. Specify a time range or "rolling interval" for calculating an average to compare to Disk Utilization threshold.
  • Disk with names matching the regular expression. Use the Include or Exclude menu option combined with a user defined regular expression to filter in or out specific disk name(s).For example: A regular expression which matches disk names beginning with a single letter is ‘ ^[a-zA-Z] ’.

Select Applied Devices

  • Apply to All Devices. By default, the threshold monitors all applicable hosts.

    Exclude Devices. Select to build or apply an exclusion list.

  • Click Apply this Threshold to Specific Devices to choose the hosts to which the threshold applies.
    Note: Configure the threshold check interval for a longer time than the sampling interval for thresholds relating to trends, such as percent utilization. Configure it for a time the same as (or similar to) the sampling interval when configuring a threshold for a health check.