not a problem, including the code here:

Note, the procedure is table driven, so there's an additional file to create tables. As far as I can tell the following section breaks...

No, not NT groups.

in SQL 2008 you no longer need password for the service account, and you don't need the service account to exist in NT group before install. This...

Robert, sys.database_files will work for SQL 2005, any idea how to implement it with SQL 2000 as well?

If there's a perf counter for what you need to monitor you can create Windows Performance Counter monitor, and pick static threshold and go from there.

there already are monitors for db and log free space

DB Space Free (%) and MB

Transaction Log Space Free (%) and MB

The problem with Percentage Change in DB % Used Space...

That's just the thing, the owner of the job is sa, and it's running under sa sql account. It would make sense if it was running under the domain login,...

it's an NT domain account

nope, there are no linked servers at all.

Marios,

Very useful article, thanks. This opens up other posibilities with SCOM.

Looking forward to that, Marios.

btw, what's SSC?

Grant, could you polease clarify what you mean by "pointing the monitor at the rule"? When creating a unit monitor I don't see anything that looks like Rule based monitor....

Grant, your article is VERY helpful, and I found more useful stuff in it than in Microsoft "documentation". So, thank you for that. I can't wait till the next one:)

I think I've completed the swearing part... how are you reporting on this? Are you using Performance canned reports in Reporting space?

as I understand it, it simply collects data for reporting, file size in this case. Although I have problems reporting on it. I've tried to use Performance reports from the...

Marios, I agree completely. I've had some "challenges" dealing with MS support as well, and have found lack of documentation and expertise... So that's why these posts, blogs, forums etc...