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IPCheck Custom Sensor: Reading Free Disk Bytes from local or remote computer using WMI

This custom sensor for IPCheck Server Monitor reads the free disk bytes from a Windows machine using WMI. You can find the files of this sensor in the following sub folder of your IPCheck Server Monitor installation:

\custom\sample\dot net\read windows disk free bytes

It was created using .NET, the .NET framework must be installed. The source can be found in "ClassMain.cs".

Prerequisites:

  • .NET framework 1.1 must be installed on the machine running IPCheck Server Monitor.
  • the machine being queried must run Win2k or later

Instructions:

  • Copy EXE and PDB into your CUSTOM directory
  • Restart the IPCheck web server process (to scan the folder for new files)
  • Create a new CUSTOM sensor
  • For the Sensor setting choose CollectDiskFreeSpaceWMI.exe
  • For Parameters set the following values in the webinterface:
    "Drive" "Computername" "Units"
  • e.g. 
    "C:" "COMPUTERNAME" "mb"
  • If a specific security account is necessary add the user account name and password:
    "C:" "REMOTECOMPUTER" "mb" "WINDOMAIN\user" "passwd"

Sample Code was created by Torsten Sturm

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