Exclude Logical disk on a Particular Drive on All Servers
I wanted to provide my client with a way to exclude a particular drive from their servers from scanning the logical disk monitor. This drive is set for the paging file only and is a very small partition size. This was generating lots of alerts in SCOM due to the number of servers being monitored. The process below is what I came up with to disable this alert for all drives labeled “D:” while still continuing to monitor free space on all other drives.
First I created a group named Windows 2008 Logical Disk Drive D:
This group does not need explicit members. Configure the dynamic members as follows:
There are no Exclusions or subgroups needed. Finish the wizard.
Now go into monitoring and create an override for the group and this monitor:
That’s it. You now have an override for this drive on all servers. All other drives will continue to report free space issues.
That is how I do it, I just wish that you could put the overrides into a different management pack than the groups management pack. The only way around that is to seal your groups management pack which leads to other problems.
The best way for Microsoft to go in the future would be to make it so groups are not part of management packs.