How can I monitor Disk space on windows machine?

[Sandeep.Chigullapally]

Hi,

I installed machine agents with server visibility (2 servers) & also .NET agents (20 servers), now I want to monitor my disk partitions free/used space, is this possible for .NET agent? Is this possible for machine agent with server visibility with no extra custom metrics/monitors/extensions used?

Document says disk partitions space used/free can be possible by basic agent, but I dont know how. Please advise.

https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO44/Hardware+Resources+Metrics#HardwareResourcesMetrics-Diska...

Thanks

Sandeep

[Kartikay.Tripathi]

.Net Agent picks all the counters from Windows Perfmon. Based on your requirement you can further configure .Net Agent to collect additional perfmon counters.

This is explained in following document - https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO44/Manage+Windows+Performance+Metrics

I think what you are looking for is "Free Megabytes" or "% Free Space" counters under "LogicalDisk" category where instance will be C:,D: etc

Following is an example on how <machine-agent> section of .net agents config.xml will look like below after you include these counters -

<machine-agent>
    <perf-counters>
      <perf-counter cat="LogicalDisk" name="Free Megabytes" instance="C:" />
      <perf-counter cat="LogicalDisk" name="% Free Space" instance="C:" />
      <perf-counter cat="LogicalDisk" name="Free Megabytes" instance="_Total" />
      <perf-counter cat="LogicalDisk" name="% Free Space" instance="_Total" />                     </perf-counters> 
</machine-agent> 

These will show up at Controller UI at Metric Browser at following path or at Individual Node level

Application Infrastructure Performance|<Tier Name>|Custom Metrics|....

Note : You will need to restart the Agent Coordinator Service after making any edits to Config.xml.

[Sandeep.Chigullapally]

Hi Tripathi,

Thanks for the reply and for the example config. Yes, I am looking for the free space available but with out using perf counters, Is there any option for that?

My other requirement is, can I monitor free disk space on a server which has server visibility enable (machine-agent), without using any perf-counter/monitors/extensions?

Please advise

Thanks

Sandeep