Familiar with monitoring but new to vCOPS and can't figure this out. Here's the breakdown.
Using vCOPS Advanced I can drill down and see vCOPS show me that logical drive E: on a VM has been at 98% utilization (of capacity) for some time as well as the exact amount of space free. So the metrics are there, and by any reasonable definition, 98% full with < 500MB free should create an alarm state.
On a side note I see gray bars around the same metrics for the C drive but not for the non-C drive. Also there are alerts in the system for low space on some C-drives but nothing for non-C drives.
So the metrics are there -- I want vCOPS to show the true risk and capacity states for this condition. On the dashboard, Risk is 12 (green) and "Capacity Remaining" is 78 (also green). I don't claim to understand how these dashboard scores are defined, but if a drive is 98% full shouldn't risk / capacity be something other than green?
Even then I should be able to bypass how vCOPS makes its calculation and make an explicit rule that says "alarm when free space on ANY logical drive is less than x%" but in perusing the interface I can not seem to find where this is.
I did see the policy section but this is quite abstract and not very detailed. I experimented with using both "Physical or Configured" as well as "Usable" caapcity methods with each having VM capacity checks enabled, but vCOPS still refuses to alarm on my E drive which is 98% full.
This is basic monitoring so I have to think that there is a way to do this, but I'm new to vCOPS and how this might be done is not clear to me. Any inside would be appreciated. Thanks!