Comments on: Check disk space with Powershell

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:11:11 +0000

Thanks for the script. I was looking for something like this to monitor a server that fills up on occasion. You saved me a lot of time by publishing this script.

Cheers.

Jeff

By: ErwinvA

ErwinvA — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:12:29 +0000

Great script, thanks for sharing.

Erwin

By: Rhys

Rhys — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:19:07 +0000

Hi Stuart,
Mmm, I’d output the variables in the calculation. NaN…

“The value of this constant is the result of dividing zero by zero.” ref

Perhaps it’s having trouble getting the values for this drive.

Cheers,

Rhys

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:55:45 +0000

Great code. One issue: I’m getting NaN as a result for one of the logical drives. When I check manually on the server, I can see this drive’s usage (110 GB used out of 500 GB).

Not sure why I’m getting a non-number result.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:36:39 +0000

Hi TJ,

Looks like a permissions issue to me so check this on the server in question.

Cheers,

Rhys

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:33:05 +0000

I keep getting the error below for one of my servers. Any idea why?

Get-WmiObject : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070005 (E_ACCESS
DENIED))
At C:\server_check.ps1:12 char:24
+ $disks = Get-WmiObject <<<< -ComputerName $server -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter "DriveType = 3";

By: Rhys

Rhys — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:09:38 +0000

Hi Nathan,

Welcome to the awesome world of Powershell!

The original script generates a text file so you don’t need to worry about that. The $DriveSpace variable was just a suggestion to get the content into an email. If you run the original script do you have a text file in your user directory called “server disks yyyymmddhhmiss.txt”? I’ve retested the script and it works fine for me. Try the original script and check your user folder for the file.

Cheers,

Rhys

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:25:18 +0000

Hey there, Rhys… awesome script, thank you!

About your last comment… I’m a total beginner to PS, so could you explain a bit on how to put that $DriveSpace variable into the script properly in order to output all the results into a text file? I’ve tried it myself a couple of times, but I’m not having a lot of luck. My text file generates, but ends up with just “server,deviceID,size,freespace,percentFree” in it.

Your assistance is much appreciated. Thanks!

-Nathan

By: Rhys

Rhys — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:45:06 +0000

Hi Aron, I also write the output into a text file so you can read the contents of this into a variable with the Get-Content cmdlet. Something like this should do it... $DriveSpace = Get-Content "$Env:USERPROFILE\server disks $datetime.txt"; Cheers, Rhys

By: Aron

Aron — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:42:13 +0000

Hey Thanks for script!

This is almost exactly what I’m trying to do, except I need it to output the result of the script to the body of an email. I think what I need it to make the output into a variable I can call in the body of the email, in my example below I called it $DriveSpace.

$SmtpClient = new-object system.net.mail.smtpClient
$SmtpServer = “MAILSERVER”
$SmtpClient.host =
$SmtpServer

$From = “USER ”
$To = “ADDRESS@DOMAIN.COM”
$Title = “Email Title”
$Body = $DriveSpace
$msg.IsBodyHTML = $true
$SmtpClient.Send($from,$to,$title,$Body)

I’m pretty new to Powershell and this is my first attempt at scripting, any advice would be appreciated