Tuning the Windows Management Pack

During Windows Management Pack deployment, a couple of items must be tuned to mitigate alerting storms and for baseline monitoring. The tuning points are as follows:

• Logical Disk Free Space Monitor

• Total Processor % Interrupt Time Rule

The Logical Disk Free Space Monitor for both Windows Server 2003 Logical Disk and the Windows Server 2008 Logical Disk should be tuned. The way the Logical Disk Free Space is configured, there are two sets of values for error and warning: % Threshold and MByte Threshold. Rather than a logical OR operator, the management pack uses a logical AND operator. Both the % Threshhold and the MByte Threshold must be true for the alert to trigger. By configuring one of the value sets ...

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