How do i configure to not send fixlets to cpu's with full hard drive

(imported topic written by jonathan.carey91)

I understnad that bigfix will issue a warning when a hard drive is getting low on space.

  1. how do i configure the thresholds that i want for instance, i want a warning anytime a machine has less than 500MB

  2. How would i prevent bigfix from sending anything to these machines.

We had a harddrive crash last week right after we pushed updates. I am 90% sure that it was the updates that filled and killed the drive. I woul like to prevent this going forward.

also you can email me at: jonathan.carey@chargers.nfl.com

(imported comment written by Aram_Eblighatian)

Hello,

There are actually a couple different options here, but I’ll describe one potential approach:

  1. Have Web Reports e-mail you a report of computers (I’d recommend first generating a ‘Single Retrieved Property Status’ report on ‘Free Space on System Drive’ and filtering that report to those less than your threshold value) using something like the following relevance clause for a trigger (check off ‘Match Relevance Conditions’ in the create scheduled activity section):

    exists (preceding texts of firsts
    " MB" of ((values of results(it, bes property
    "Free Space on System Drive")) of bes computers) as integer) whose (it < 500)

  2. You can use a dynamic policy to lock computers with less than a certain amount of free space on the system drive. See http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=367 for more information about how to create them. You can use relevance such as:

    {

    if ((exists setting
    "LockOverride" of client) and (exists value of setting
    "LockOverride" of client) and (value of setting
    "LockOverride" of client =
    “1”)) then
    "false"

    else

    if (((free space of drive of system folder)/(1024 * 1024)) < 500) then
    "true"

    else
    "false"
    }

Thanks,

Aram

(imported comment written by jonathan.carey91)

thank you very much. I will give this a try over the weekend.