SCOM only monitoring disk space of a group of servers

I have been looking for a way to setup SCOM to ONLY monitor the disk space on a specific group of servers.
We have a sandbox environment that consists of approximately 100 servers. The only responsibility we have is to make sure these machines are patched. Everything else related to the OS and Software is handled by the developers who own the sandbox,
so no other monitors are needed. Microsoft patches are failing because some of the C drives do not have enough disk space. Is there a way to discover these servers and only have the disk monitored? All other monitors in SCOM can be ignored on these
servers.
Thanks for any assistance that can be provided.

Without knowing what else you have in your SCOM environment, it could be a lot of work to start excluding this group of servers from all the other monitoring you have.
Other options you could consider are to allow the servers to be monitored, but somehow exclude those alerts from being sent in any subscriptions, or putting the components of those servers into Maintenance Mode other than the C: drives, but both of these
options will still collect information on these 100 servers and take space in your SCOM DBs.
You can refer to this page for how to use the free space monitor and override it for a group that will target your 100 servers. http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonathanalmquist/archive/2009/04/04/logical-disk-free-space-monitor.aspx

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