Logical disk free space counters missing for server 2008 r2 and 2012 r2

I'm trying to get low disk space alerts for server 2008R2 and 2012 R2. While the monitors exist for 2008 and 2012 (Not-R2), they are missign for all R2 operating systems. Any idea how to either obtain these monitors, or create them so I can
get alerts for % disk free alerts?

What is your meaning of " monitors exist for 2008 and 2012 (Not-R2), they are missing for all R2 operating systems."? Does it means that the monitor is missing on all Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 R2 machine or it just a blank circle ?
By default, Windows XXX Logical disk Free Space monitor is enable for all windows XXX. You may check whether an override to disable it. Moreover, Windows Server XXXX Logical Disk Free Space (%) Low and Windows Server 2008 Logical Disk Free Space (MB) Low
is disable by default and you should manually enable it.
Roger

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When looking at the additional knowledge of the monitor, I see that it is using the following information:
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These "strange" disks are called mount points.
They get discovered by the "Mount Point Discovery Rule".
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I have an interesting need here to separate our SCOM alerts for Logical Disk Free space so that one alert is for OSSystem drives ONLY (C:/D:) and the other monitor alerts on all APP drives only (E:, etc). So far we have had great success using Kevin Holman's
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2009/11/24/writing-monitors-to-target-logical-or-physical-disks.aspx
We have overrides set so that the monitors report ONLY the percentage of free space left and ignores any MB threshold. So far so good, the alert comes in that host A reports low disk space on D: at 2.345...% free or host B reports low disk space on F: at
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We are very new to SCOM so I made the rookie mistake of creating a dynamic group for all Windows Server 2003 Logical Disk class that only includes Device Name = C or D. But found out too late you cant point a monitor to a group, it has to target a class.
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Hi Kevsharp,
Quite confusing after reading your question.
So based on your requirement, What i understand is you need separate alerts for all the drives of the disk is running at low or out of space right ?
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Hello reader ,
I know this might be a repeated hearing for you. I have been sitting wit this issue for many hours now. I would like to understand where or what am I missing.
We have the default 'Logical Disk Space' Monitoring enabled for ALL servers in our environment. In one SQL server, non-system drive(E:) went beyond the warning(2000MB and 10%) and Critical (1000MB and 5%) Threshold.The total space allotted for the Drive
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1) verify the monitor settings again.
=> I did this N number of times.
2) ensure there are no overrides
=> I did this too.
3) ensure that monitor properties are set for the correct Windows OS (same as that of the server).
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I wanted to see for myself if there was anything else that I might be missing, so I opened up the Windows 2008 Logical Disk Free Space monitor XML and noticed that there is a NumSamples configuration that is set to 4. So, if the interval is 15 minutes, the
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Thanks Gautam,
even i go through one by Monitors, i don't see any option to enable monitor. looks like its grayed out.
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Hello,
I was wondering how I could make a view (preferably within a dashboard) that monitors the state of the Logical Disk Free Space values for one or more predefined groups. I can only get this to work with line diagrams but that is pretty hard to read.
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Logical disk free space is low.

Hello,
I am getting this alert "The disk on computer abc.com is running out of disk space. The values that exceeded the threshold are x% free space and "y" free Mbytes. Can any one clearly explain the issue and what is the proper resolution.
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