[Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows

[David Boyer]

Try setting it up for a file to exist on the drive.  If the drive goes
offline, the file will become non-existent and should alert.

Dave

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:16 PM <me at tdiehl.org> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Becker Christian wrote:
>
> > Tom,
> >
> >
> > the following should do it for you: try to include the disks of the
> mentioned windows server in analysis.cfg with the needed options, even if
> they already show up in the disk section.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > HOST=WINDOWSSERVER
> >       DISK   C   85   90
> >       DISK   D   55   70
> >
> > (Pls note that changes like this could take some minutes before they are
> reflected by xymon.)
> >
> > Now xymon knows that you explicitly want to know about these disks. You
> can verify this if you add a disk in this section that doesn't exist on the
> windows server: after a couple of minutes, xymon should report this disk as
> red in the disk section.
>
> I cannot get the above to work.
>
> I have a file in analysis.d with the following in it:
> HOST=fs1.mydomain.com
>      DISK C 90 95
>      DISK D 93 95
> This was there when the D drive went offline and Xymon never alerted.
>
> To test further, I dropped the warning for the D drive to 78 which is less
> than
> the current usage of 79% and I added the below.
>      DISK z 93 95
> What I found was the D drive went yellow as expected but the Z drive is
> ignored
> as it does not exist.
>
> I am running 4.3.30 from the Terebithia rpms.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Tom                     me at tdiehl.org
>
> >
> >
> > Regards and good luck!
> > Christian
> >
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von me at tdiehl.org
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. April 2022 22:58
> > An: xymon at xymon.com
> > Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows
> server?
> >
> > I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed in
> the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of those
> disks is missing?
> >
> > We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were
> installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was happy
> but the users were not.
> >
> > My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this
> should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
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