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I have a WMI disk sensor on a server which reports incorrect information.

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My WMI disk sensor reported different information compare the actual.

PRTG version: 7.3.2.5477
Target server: Windows 2003 Adv. Server
Sensor: WMI Disk Free
The disk involved: E: capacity 520GB with 228GB
PRTG sensor reported: 7630 MByte, 14% Free

disk-free prtg windows-server-2003 wmi

Created on May 28, 2010 8:33:26 AM

Last change on May 31, 2010 1:47:35 PM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]



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Dear Edmond,

Microsoft's WMI provides two methods for reading free disk space—a simple "disk free" and a method that considers the actual volume. PRTG offers both request methods in its interface—namely WMI Disk Free and WMI Volume.

If—as in your case—WMI does not provide correct values, please try with the other method, using the more advanced WMI Volume sensor in PRTG.

Created on May 31, 2010 9:02:03 AM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]

Last change on May 31, 2010 1:47:51 PM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]




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