Description

This connector provides monitoring of the S.M.A.R.T.-enabled disks that are directly handled by Windows (and WBEM through the WMI service). It tries to exclude disks that are actually logical disks exposed by some RAID controllers.

Target

Typical platform: Any system

Operating system: Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

Relies on: WMI

Technology and protocols: WMI

Connector Activation Criteria

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

• Operating System is Microsoft Windows
• The Windows service WINMGMT is running
• The WMI query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root\WMI
  • WQL Query: SELECT InstanceName FROM MSStorageDriver_FailurePredictStatus WHERE Active=TRUE
  • Result contains: \(^[^M]...\)\|\(^.[^P]..\)\|\(^..[^I].\)\|\(^...[^O]\) (regex)