Zabbix, Windows mount points and Powershell

[Anth0ny]

I make a solution for Windows mount points monitoring.

Task

Monitor a free spase (in bytes and %) for any windows mount point
at Win2008 R2 (MS Cluster).

Solution

Get your mounted points Caption (get it from WMI by query "select * from Win32_Volume"):

We will use for example the mountpoint T:\Users\Profiles

At Windows Server side
* Create subdirectory in zabbix agent directory, call it Scripts (C:\Progra~1\Zabbix)
* Create a powershell script disk_data.ps1, plase here (C:\Progra~1\Zabbix\Scripts\disk_data.ps1)

(Note: i use Progra~1 as short format of Program Files directory)

Script code:

param ($caption, $info)
gwmi win32_volume|where-object {$_.name -match “$caption”}| % { '{0,10}' -f $_.$info}

* Allow execution for ps1 unsigned scripts at powershell console

At Zabbix side

* Create an Item

Description: MountPoint T:\Users\Profiles - size
Type: Zabbix Agent
Key:

system.run["powershell.exe -NoProfile -NoLogo -File C:\Progra~1\Zabbix\Scripts\disk_data.ps1 T:\\Users\\Profiles Capacity"]

Type of information: Numeric (unsigned)
Data type: Decimal
Units: B
Store\Show value: As is

* Create an Item

Description: MountPoint T:\Users\Profiles - free (in bytes)
Type: Zabbix Agent
Key:

system.run["powershell.exe -NoProfile -NoLogo -File C:\Progra~1\Zabbix\Scripts\disk_data.ps1 T:\\Users\\Profiles Freespace"]

Type of information: Numeric (unsigned)
Data type: Decimal
Units: B
Store\Show value: As is

* Create an Item

Description: MountPoint T:\Users\Profiles - free (in %)
Type: Calculated
Key:

100*last(system.run["powershell.exe -NoProfile -NoLogo -File C:\Progra~1\Zabbix\Scripts\disk_data.ps1 T:\\Users\\Profiles Freespace"])/last(system.run["powershell.exe -NoProfile -NoLogo -File C:\Progra~1\Zabbix\Scripts\disk_data.ps1 T:\\Users\\Profiles Capacity"])

Type of information: Numeric (unsigned)
Data type: Decimal
Units: %
Store\Show value: As is

I think, you can create triggers by yourself.
Thats all, folks =)

[Daave]

Hi Anth0ny, hope you still visit this site. I was wondering if you can tell me how to set this up using v2.2 where the formula is now part of the calculated item type.

So basically, how the last item would be setup in v2.2.

If you or anyone for that matter can help me out, I'd really appreciate it. I need to monitor % disk space free on Windows mount points.

Thanks!

[zyamada]

Hi Anth0ny, hope you still visit this site. I was wondering if you can tell me how to set this up using v2.2 where the formula is now part of the calculated item type.

So basically, how the last item would be setup in v2.2.

If you or anyone for that matter can help me out, I'd really appreciate it. I need to monitor % disk space free on Windows mount points.

Thanks!

If you change the key to any valid key value (for example "0" will suffice) then put what Anth0ny listed as "key" in the formula field, you should be returned the value you're looking for. This is how I have it setup in my Zabbix instance/