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Monitoring Disk Space C:\ on Office Workstations only when they are online

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Hello @all,

we want to monitor 300 workstations (windows 7/10) in our offices - but only when they are online. If the workstation is not online, we DO NOT want to receive an error or an email notification. The check interval would be every few hours when the workstation is online - or 1x per day. Is the workstation online and the sensor detects a full memory on C:\ then the status warning would be enough.

We are working in a 24/7 business but the workstations are randomly online - depending on the shift of the employee.

How can we best implement this?

Thank you and best regards

clients disk-space only-online prtg warning workstations

Created on Aug 16, 2018 1:19:32 PM



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Hi there,

The best way would be to add all Workstations to PRTG with a Ping Sensor and Disk Space Sensor with disabled Error Limits. To do this perform the following steps:

  1. Add a new Workstation to PRTG
  2. Add a Ping Sensor via an Auto Discovery with the "Ping Only"-Template to the device and enable the "Show "Down (Acknowledged)" status on error"-option in the sensor settings
  3. Set the Scanning Interval to 5-10 Minutes for the Ping Sensor
  4. Afterwards add a new Disk Free Sensor for "C:\"
  5. Clear the "Lower Error Limit"-field in the sensor settings
  6. Set the Scanning interval to "1 hour" or even longer (Scanning Intervals)
  7. Create a new Device Template from this device to use it in the further Auto-Discoveries for all Workstations


Best regards.

Created on Aug 17, 2018 11:20:58 AM by Dariusz Gorka [Paessler Support]



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Hello Dariusz,

thank you very much for your quick support. I'll test it out next week and give feedback here.

Thanks and greetings!

Created on Aug 17, 2018 12:07:01 PM



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Hi there,

Good to hear! Let us know about the outcome. :)

Best regards.

Created on Aug 17, 2018 1:01:49 PM by Dariusz Gorka [Paessler Support]




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