The Physical Disk Queue alarm monitors the number of queued requests on the physical disk that are waiting to be processed or are currently being processed. If the number of requests continues to be at or above the threshold, physical disk congestion is indicated.

Reference note

To monitor a specific disk, copy this alarm and create an alarm by changing the condition expression in the ID field to ID = name-of-monitored-logical-disk-volume.

PFM - Web Console alarm property		Settings
Item	Detailed item
Main Information	Product	Windows
	Alarm message	Disk Queue(%CVS1) = %CVS2 MB
	Enable alarm	Yes
	Monitoring time range	Evaluate regularly
	Evaluate all data	No
	Report alarm when the following damping condition is reached.	Yes
	interval(s)	5
	occurrence(s) during	4
Action	Email	--
	Command	--
	SNMP	Abnormal, Warning, Normal
Alarm Conditions 1	Record	Physical Disk Overview (PI_PHYD)
	Field	ID
	Abnormal condition	ID <> _Total#
	Warning condition	ID <> _Total#
Alarm Conditions 2	Record	Physical Disk Overview (PI_PHYD)
	Field	Current Disk Queue Length
	Abnormal condition	Current Disk Queue Length >= 5
	Warning condition	Current Disk Queue Length >= 3

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--: Setting is always invalid.

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Set the number of the physical disk volume to be monitored. The value used in the table shows an example of setting a condition value that satisfies the ID field.

PFM Windows Template Alarms [DSK] 09.00

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