Hierarchy Monitoring detected that the Database File Disk is running out of space

[BzowK]

Hey All -

 

I've searched all over the place for an error I'm getting and cannot clear, but haven't yet found one article about it.

 

After some strange things started happening in SCCM today, I took a look at Monitoring. The only Component with an error was the SMS_HIERARCHY_MANAGER.

 

I opened it up and saw a new Error which was being received every 60-90 minutes. It says:

 

"Hierarchy Monitoring detected that the Database File Disk (E:\) is running out of space."

 

... and lists my primary SCCM server as the hostname affected. The thing is, that the E: partition has 29.5gb free!

 

My Primary SCCM server (which also holds a DP role) has 4 partitions with the following status:

C: OS 14.6 of 49.8 free

D: Prog Files 23.9 of 29.9 free

E: Data 29.5 of 74.9 free

Y: Swap 863mb of 4.99gb free (Always been like this...)

 

I tried rebooting the server, but still got the error. In fact, when I opened the log after the reboot, it had lines saying that the component was signaled stop, started, then the error started back up again.

 

I do have SQL on a separate VM if that makes a difference. It's E: has 4.2gb free, but it's hostname wasn't listed in Log.

 

Finally, this error didn't start appearing until 7/8/12 @ 8:10pm CST. I am one of two people who use SCCM here and nothing was done at or around that time.

 

Any suggestions? Thanks!

[BzowK]

OK - Figured it out...

 

The error did list for SCCM's hostname that was having the issue, but that wasn't the case. We have a separate server for SQL which has an E partition, too. It had 4.9gb free. After finding a setting that had thresholds for database files (in sccm) to 5 or 10gb, we thought to try the SQL server. Some space was cleared, SMS_Component service restarted, and all seems to be well.

 

Thanks