Exceptions in check_drivespace

[jnrduggan]

Apologies if this has been discussed already, I've done a search but I can't see the exact issue I'm having.

I want to check 1 out of 4 drives on a Windows server at a different level to the other 3 using check_diskspace.

I thought I could use something like -

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check_drivesize mounted filter=type='fixed' crit=free<5% warn=free<10% drive=* exclude=d: crit=free<3% warn=free<5% drive=d:

But no matter where you put the "exclude=d:" part of the command, it excludes it from the entire check, so the second part (checking d: at 5% and 3%) doesn't happen.

The only option I've found so far is to do each drive individually like this -

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check_drivesize crit=free<5% warn=free<10% drive=c: crit=free<3% warn=free<5% drive=d: [...]

But a) that's fairly cumbersome, especially with multiple drives and b) the check then won't automatically detect when a new drive is added. I have this check running across multiple servers too, so the inconsistency would be an issue.

Am I missing an option or an argument in the command that would be useful here?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[mcapra]

I want to check 1 out of 4 drives on a Windows server at a different level to the other 3 using check_diskspace.

Is it always the D: drive that needs the special thresholds? One option would be to string together one check that says "use these thresholds for all drives, except D:" and another that says "apply these thresholds to just the D: drive", with check_multi. There's still 2 logical checks being run, but you get one single output to configure as the "disk service" for all your hosts.

I'm not sure NSClient++ supports your desired configuration, but you could try some of the more clever filter keywords to see if any of them support common differences between "the regular drives" and D: -- space, usable bytes, flags on the drive, media type, etc:
https://docs.nsclient.org/reference/win ... r-keywords