PRTG Manual: WMI Share Sensor
The WMI Share sensor monitors a shared resource on a Windows system via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
You can set the sensor to the Down status for different share status messages.
For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.
- Dutch: WMI Share
- French: Partage (WMI)
- German: WMI Freigabe
- Japanese: WMI 共有
- Portuguese: Compartilhamento (WMI)
- Russian: Ресурс WMI
- Simplified Chinese: WMI 共享
- Spanish: Recurso compartido (WMI)
- This sensor has a high performance impact. Stay below 200 WMI sensors per probe. Above this number, consider using multiple remote probes for load balancing.
- This sensor requires WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) for target systems that run Windows Server 2016.
- This sensor requires credentials for Windows systems in the settings of the parent device.
- To provide any shares, the LanmanServer "Server" Windows service must run on the target system. If it does not run, there are no shares and you see a No Share available message.
- This sensor supports IPv6.
You cannot add this sensor to the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance. If you want to use this sensor, add it to a remote probe device.
Setting |
Description |
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Sensor Name |
Enter a name to identify the sensor. By default, PRTG shows this name in the device tree, as well as in alarms, logs, notifications, reports, maps, libraries, and tickets.
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Parent Tags |
The tags that the sensor inherits from its parent device, parent group, and parent probe.
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Tags |
Enter one or more tags. Confirm each tag with the Spacebar key, a comma, or the Enter key. You can use tags to group objects and use tag-filtered views later on. Tags are not case-sensitive. Tags are automatically inherited.
The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:
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Priority |
Select a priority for the sensor. This setting determines the position of the sensor in lists. The highest priority is at the top of a list. Choose from the lowest priority ( |
Setting |
Description |
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Shared Resource |
Information about the shared resource that this sensor monitors. |
Description |
The description of the shared resource that this sensor monitors. |
Type |
The type of the shared resource that this sensor monitors. |
TypeID |
The typeID of the shared resource that this sensor monitors. |
Trigger Down Status on Following Conditions
Select under which conditions the sensor shows the Down status. As long as the share returns OK, the sensor status shows the Up status. Enable the check box in front of the respective line to select a Down condition. Select none, one, or several of the following conditions.
If the sensor is in the Down status, it does not record any data in any of its channels.
Condition |
Description |
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Error |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns an error status. A share in this status is not operational.
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Degraded |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a degraded status. A share in this status is still operational.
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Unknown |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns an unknown status. |
Pred Fail |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a predicted fail status. This indicates that an element works properly but predicts a failure (for example, a SMART-enabled hard drive). A share in this status is still operational.
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Starting |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a starting status. A share in this status is not operational. |
Stopping |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a stopping status. A share in this status is not operational. |
Service |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a service status. This can apply during disk mirror-resilvering, reloading a user permissions list, or other administrative work on the device that this sensor monitors. Not all such work is done online, but the managed element is neither OK nor has one of the other states. A share in this status is not operational. |
Stressed |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a stressed status. |
Nonrecover |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a non recover status.
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NoContact |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a no contact status.
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LostComm |
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a lost communication status.
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Setting |
Description |
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Result Handling |
Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:
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Setting |
Description |
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Primary Channel |
Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, the last value of the primary channel is always displayed below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.
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Graph Type |
Define how different channels are shown for this sensor:
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Stack Unit |
This setting is only visible if you enable Stack channels on top of each other as Graph Type. Select a unit from the list. All channels with this unit are stacked on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so. |
By default, all of these settings are inherited from objects that are higher in the hierarchy. We recommend that you change them centrally in the root group settings if necessary. To change a setting for this object only, click under the corresponding setting name to disable the inheritance and to display its options.
For more information, see section Inheritance of Settings.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Scanning Interval.
Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window
You cannot interrupt the inheritance for schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. The corresponding settings from the parent objects are always active. However, you can define additional schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. They are active at the same time as the parent objects' settings.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Access Rights.
Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.
Channel |
Description |
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Available |
The availability of the share
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Downtime |
In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status |
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