Monitor Free Space on HDDs

[ChadJK]

Is there a way to configure Windows to monitor hard disk free space and send an administrative alert when there is less than x MBs or x % free space?

 

[Seaspray0]

As markdmac will tell you, "you can do just about anything with VB Script".

Microsoft has an excellent library of pre-written VB scripts at your disposal. If you run it on a regular basis as a task, you should get what you want. Here's an example from the script center i found in less than a minute. Cut and paste it with what you need for sending an email (no doubt an example exists for this too)


strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colDisks = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk")
For each objDisk in colDisks
Wscript.Echo "Compressed: " & vbTab & objDisk.Compressed
Wscript.Echo "Description: " & vbTab & objDisk.Description
Wscript.Echo "DeviceID: " & vbTab & objDisk.DeviceID
Wscript.Echo "DriveType: " & vbTab & objDisk.DriveType
Wscript.Echo "FileSystem: " & vbTab & objDisk.FileSystem
Wscript.Echo "FreeSpace: " & vbTab & objDisk.FreeSpace
Wscript.Echo "MediaType: " & vbTab & objDisk.MediaType
Wscript.Echo "Name: " & vbTab & objDisk.Name
Wscript.Echo "QuotasDisabled: " & vbTab & objDisk.QuotasDisabled
Wscript.Echo "QuotasIncomplete: " & vbTab & objDisk.QuotasIncomplete
Wscript.Echo "QuotasRebuilding: " & vbTab & objDisk.QuotasRebuilding
Wscript.Echo "Size: " & vbTab & objDisk.Size
Wscript.Echo "SupportsDiskQuotas: " & vbTab & _
objDisk.SupportsDiskQuotas
Wscript.Echo "SupportsFileBasedCompression: " & vbTab & _
objDisk.SupportsFileBasedCompression
Wscript.Echo "SystemName: " & vbTab & objDisk.SystemName
Wscript.Echo "VolumeDirty: " & vbTab & objDisk.VolumeDirty
Wscript.Echo "VolumeName: " & vbTab & objDisk.VolumeName
Wscript.Echo "VolumeSerialNumber: " & vbTab & _
objDisk.VolumeSerialNumber
Next



Start, Help. You'll be surprised what's there. A+/MCP/MCSE/MCDBA

 

[Titleist]

You could set an Alert to monitor free disk space in the "Performance" mmc. Add the logical disk counters and it will monitor and alert you through net send or email( using blat or somethimg similar).