Configure certain servers to monitor disk space using NETXMS

[czimmermann]

Hello,

I am new to NETXMS and I have been tasked to have NETXMS maintain certain features on our network. I would like to figure out how to monitor disk space. I have briefly looked over the documentation and searched the forums to no avail. So I have turned to you.

Please help me NETXMS community, you're my only hope.

-Clayton Zimmermann

[victor]

Hi!

You need NetXMS agent installed on target machine, and than you can get disk space information via Disk.Free, Disk.Used, etc. parameters. For example, to configure free disk space monitoring on disk C:, do the following:

1. Select node in object browser
2. Right click on it, and select Data collection
3. Add new DCI, leave origin as "NetXMS Agent", press "Select...", and select Disk.Free parameter.
4. Inside the parenthesis, enter C:. You parameter's name should look like
   Disk.Free(C:)
5. Configure thresholds if necessary.

That's all - as soon as you create new DCI, NetXMS server will start collecting information.

Best regards,
Victor

[czimmermann]

Thank you. I am currently trying what you suggested. I will post again if I have any problems.

[czimmermann]

I was able to follow your steps and monitor one drive successfully. Is it possible to monitor multiple drives in one Data Collection Item? Such as if you put C:,D: in the argument section of the Parameters would it monitor the C and D drives to 75% capacity? Or is there a command to monitor all possible drives in the same DCI?

Thanks.

--Edit
Is there a way to send a DCI to multiple but not all nodes? I need this exact DCI to go to about 23.

[Anth0ny]

For monitoting multiple drives you can't use single DCI. You can use a Condition to bind all drive's DCIs to one monitoring object.

[victor]

@czimmermann said in Configure certain servers to monitor disk space using NETXMS:

I was able to follow your steps and monitor one drive successfully. Is it possible to monitor multiple drives in one Data Collection Item? Such as if you put C:,D: in the argument section of the Parameters would it monitor the C and D drives to 75% capacity? Or is there a command to monitor all possible drives in the same DCI?

You can create DCI which summarizes values of two DCIs via transformation script.

@czimmermann said in Configure certain servers to monitor disk space using NETXMS:

Is there a way to send a DCI to multiple but not all nodes? I need this exact DCI to go to about 23.

You can use templates for this. Create template with required DCIs, and then apply it to nodes you wish these DCIs to appear on. Any future changes in template will also reflects on nodes this template applies to. To simplify DCI creation in template, you can create empty template, open data collection configuration fr node where you have already configured DCIs, and then move DCIs to template by right-click and selecting "Convert to template item".

Best regards,
Victor

[czimmermann]

Thank you again. Very helpful. I created templates and I am currently monitoring drives without any problem.