https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221043#M51683 Hi<BR />I have the following<BR />1. Proliant ML370G4<BR />2. HP System Management Homepage v3.0.2.77 <BR />3. Windows 2008 R1 SP2 64 bit<BR /><BR />I have a strange problem in HPSMH when I am setting the individual disk threshold in Tasks -&gt; System -&gt; System Configuration<BR /><BR />This threshold is the % Free Space and I can set Warning and Critical threshold. When I set warning to 60% and Critical to 55% I get the message "Warning values must be less than critical values!". <BR /><BR />Logically speaking warning threshold for free space should be higher than critical threshold... no?<BR /><BR /><BR /> Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:45:11 GMT kenny chia 2010-01-22T08:45:11Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221043#M51683 Hi<BR />I have the following<BR />1. Proliant ML370G4<BR />2. HP System Management Homepage v3.0.2.77 <BR />3. Windows 2008 R1 SP2 64 bit<BR /><BR />I have a strange problem in HPSMH when I am setting the individual disk threshold in Tasks -&gt; System -&gt; System Configuration<BR /><BR />This threshold is the % Free Space and I can set Warning and Critical threshold. When I set warning to 60% and Critical to 55% I get the message "Warning values must be less than critical values!". <BR /><BR />Logically speaking warning threshold for free space should be higher than critical threshold... no?<BR /><BR /><BR /> Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:45:11 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221043#M51683 kenny chia 2010-01-22T08:45:11Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221044#M51684 No, you want a warning BEFORE something goes critical. In other words, setting a warning threshold of 80% and a critical threshold of 95% means that as it crosses 80% you'll get a 'warning' which implies a certain level of responsiveness--"Oh, it's just a warning; I'll get to it later..." Now as it keeps growing and it rises to 95% you'll get the critical, and you'll say, "Oh, no! Critical! Better get right to it!" Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:50:02 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221044#M51684 David Claypool 2010-01-22T16:50:02Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221045#M51685 Hi David<BR />For free space percentage, lesser percentage means a more critical situation. So critical % should be lesser than warning.<BR /><BR />If we are talking about space used, than critical % &gt; warning % Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:10:46 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221045#M51685 kenny chia 2010-01-25T02:10:46Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221046#M51686 Yes, these thresholds are based on used capacity. 80% means 20% available, 95% means 5% available. Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:51:19 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221046#M51686 David Claypool 2010-01-25T12:51:19Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221047#M51687 Yeah.. looks like the HPSMH GUI is quite misleading. The threshold is the used value Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:29:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221047#M51687 kenny chia 2010-01-26T00:29:33Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221048#M51688 close thread Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:30:03 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-free-space-warning-is-lower-than-critical-threshold/m-p/5221048#M51688 kenny chia 2010-01-26T00:30:03Z