Using WMI

Question

Is there a way to use WMI to create a disk perfomance alert?  Is there documentation somewhere that I am missing?

New to ipMonitor but liking it very much so far.

Lance Wilson
Network Engineer

LCWilson · Answer

Thanks Derek.  That is exactly what I am looking for.

Derek · Answer

Hi Lance,

Are you looking to monitor Disk Performance and have an Alert based on the threshold rate?

One option is to use the Exchange Server Monitor, but not use the Exchange specific counters.

Here is a list of system Counters you can use:

Performance Counters:

Disk Read Bytes per Second
Disk Write Bytes per Second
Pages per Second
Page File Percentage Used
Process Queue Length
Context Switches
Number of Processes

The other option is to use our External Monitor in conjunction with a WMI script.  Let me know if this helps.