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    Incorrect % free space returned by Windows 2008 via WMI
    Thread posted Mar 11 by Ira Schnelle
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    Title:
    Incorrect % free space returned by Windows 2008 via WMI
    Version:
    14.0
    Message:

    I don't understand why WUG Premium doesn't allow you to set thresholds on the performance monitoring data for sending alerts, but this seems like a common complaint so I'll leave it alone for now.

    I found the WMI active monitors and I have been successfully using the Logical Disk / % Free Disk Space monitors with my Windows 2003 servers.  This was working really well until I decided to set them up for a new file server we installed that is based on Windows 2008.  I was getting a "down" error on those monitors because the value returned for % free space was around 1%.  It looks like Microsoft acknowledges this is a problem in KB949701 and instructs users to refer to another WMI property to retrieve that data instead.

    "To work around this problem, use the PercentFreeSpace property of the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk WMI class."

    It looks like the property that WUG calls is PercentFreeSpace_Base of the Win32_PerfRawData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk class, which is the correct property for all other Windows operating systems (except Vista, which has the same bug).  Is there a way I can define a new WMI monitor in WUG that uses this PercentFreeSpace property of the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk class instead of PercentFreeSpace_Base for Windows 2008 servers?

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    • posted Mar 12 by Ambar Kulkarni

      Ira,

      starting with v14, WUG does indeed allow you to set up threshold on data collected by performance monitors. You have to use "Alert Center" to do that. So it is no longer necessary to use WMI active monitor to get alerts on disk space, just use the built in disk performance monitor and then configure alerts in alert center (web interface).

      -Ambar

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    • posted Mar 17 by Ira Schnelle

      Thanks.

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