WMI - Disks

Description

This connector discovers and monitors S.M.A.R.T.-enabled disks that are directly handled by Windows through the WMI service.

hardware windows

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• CpqIDEDriveArray
• CpqSCSIDriveArray
• DellStorageManager
• SunHwMon
• WinStorageSpaces

Target

Typical platform: Microsoft Windows

Operating system: Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

Leverages: WMI

Technology and protocols: WMI

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t win -c +WBEMGenDiskNT --wmi -u USER

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: win
        connectors: [ +WBEMGenDiskNT ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wmi:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The WMI - Disks connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The device type must be one of: NT
• The Windows service WINMGMT is present and running
• The WMI query below succeeds:
  • Namespace: root\WMI
  • Query: SELECT InstanceName FROM MSStorageDriver_FailurePredictStatus WHERE Active=TRUE
  • Result contains: \(^[^M]...\)\|\(^.[^P]..\)\|\(^..[^I].\)\|\(^...[^O]\) (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
disk_controller	hw.status{hw.type="disk_controller", state="present"}	controller_number hw.parent.type id model vendor
physical_disk	hw.physical_disk.size hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="predicted_failure"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name vendor