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How-To: Monitor drive space for low space limits.
Another one of IPSentry's native monitoring features is the ability to monitor various drives for space thresholds. Ideal for monitoring drives which contain log files and various queues which can fill up unexpectedly due to various conditions or as the result of other problems.
In this example, we will monitor a drive on which our web server is storing log files. Although we have plenty of drive space available and an automated log purging routine in place - we know that if this drive begins to exceed a given threshold, problems may escalate in other areas. (Such as log analysis utilities, logging of the information itself, etc.)
We will need to know a few things before we begin.
What is the network share name used? \\XSERVER\XSHARE
How much free space do we require? 4GB
Drive Space Monitoring Steps
From the IPSentry active display console,
select Options from the Edit menu.
Click on the Server/Machine Monitoring tab.
Click Add to being adding a new device to
monitor.
Under --TYPE--, select Drive
Set the following fields:
Name: {unique descriptive name}
Desc: {meaningful description}
Share or Drive: \\XSERVER\XSHARE
Drv Map: [leave this field blank]
Username: If a specific login is required, enter the user login name here.
Password: If a specific login is required, enter the user password here.
Space: 4000 (amount of space in Megabytes required)
Configure alerts as desired.
Hit OK to save these settings.
With the above configuration, any configured alerts will be triggered if the drive space on \\XSERVER\XSHARE drops below 4000 meg.
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