Disk Thresholds question

[Dave Spalding_2]

I'm not entirely sure where to set Disk Thresholds to make them work correctly. I have SIM 4.1 on Win2K Server and only Win2K Server clients.

Do I set the thresholds in SIM under Configure - Disk Thresholds? Or do I set them in each clients Insight Manager Agent under File System Space Used? Or do I need to set them in both places?

I currently have the thresholds set in each clients Insight Manager Agent at 90% for warning and 95% for critical. It apparently sends a SNMP trap to the SIM server which sends out an alert. The problem I am having is that it is sending out a Critical alert when only the warning threshold has been met. Not what I want.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Rob Buxton]

I think the alert generated is the same for either threshold. But I've not tested this.
You could try and see which actual Event TYpe is the same. If not you could change these in the SNMP Trap Settings Screen.

Otherwise you're on the right track. The settings are set up on the Agent. You can configure and distribute the settings from HPSIM. The main criteria there is whether you want the same settings everywhere.

[Joel Rubenstein]

Dave,

There are 2 methods to set the disk thresholds.

1. from SIM configure --> disk thresholds

However this will configure the same thresholds for every drive on that system.

2. From the system management homepage
tasks --> performance --> file space used.

This will allow you to set individual thresholds on a per drive basis.

[Dave Spalding_2]

Yup. That does appear to be correct. It just sets it in the same place. Too bad the difference between "Warning" and "Critical" thresholds don't seem to make a difference. I'll take a look at the traps sent and see if they are any different and have the SIM Event handling treat them differently. Thanks.