Skip to main content

PowerShell Scripting: Low Disk Space Notification

Update 20150812
You'll see in the below comments that I left a global variable that was not required in the original script. The below post has been updated with that variable removed.

Original Post
So, I came across a need to have a script that checks the free space of a hard drive, calculates the percentage and send an e-mail notification of the free space is less than 10%. I figured that this could be scripted with PowerShell and run as a scheduled task in Windows. One thing I did find out is that I needed to create a service account in Active Directory with Server Admin permissions. Once you have that account in place simply copy the script below and name it "WhatYouWant.ps1" and set your Windows task accordingly. Disclaimer: I did reach out for assistance with creating this script on StackOverflow. My original script was writing the output to a text file, and copying the contents of that text file into the e-mail notification. This was not acceptable for the long term. You can check out that thread here.

Here's the PowerShell script:
# Set Global Parameters
$emailTO = "SomeOne@SomeDomain.com"
$emailFrom = "SomeOne@SomeDomain.com"
$smtpServer = "SMTPserverInfo"

$computers = ("server1","server2","server3","server4")
$i = 0

# Get Drive Data
$report = @(
foreach($computer in $computers)
{
$drives = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $computer Win32_LogicalDisk | Where-Object {$_.DriveType -eq 3}
     foreach($drive in $drives)
     {
          # Calculate Free Space
          $obj = new-object psobject -Property @{
               ComputerName = $computer
               Drive = $drive.DeviceID
               Size = $drive.size / 1GB
               Free = $drive.freespace / 1GB
               PercentFree = $drive.freespace / $drive.size * 100
               }
          # Monitor for 10% or less in free space and report accordingly
          if ($obj.PercentFree -lt 10) {
               $obj | Format-Table ComputerName,Drive,@{n='Size';e={'{0:N1}' -f $_.Size}},@{n='Free';e={'{0:N1}' -f $_.Free}},@{n='PercentFree';e={'{0:N1}' -f $_.PercentFree}} | Out-String
               $i++
               }
     }
    
}
)

# Send notification if script finds more than 0 drives with less than 10% free space
if ($i -gt 0)
   {
       foreach ($user in $emailTo)
                {
        echo "Sending Email Notification to $user"
        $smtp = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
        $subject = "Server with Low Disk Space"
        foreach ($line in $report)
            {
                $body += "$line "
                }
        Send-MailMessage -to $user -From $emailFrom -SmtpServer $smtpServer -Subject $Subject -Body $body
                }
   } 
Edit the above accordingly to your own needs and configure Windows Task Manager to run when you want.

Comments

  1. thanks for this, just curious what the;

    $diskspace = "3"

    stands for in global params. thanks!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Hi! Thanks for pointing that one out. I went back though my notes, and it looks like I was using that value for some debugging and failed to remove it in the final product. That global param is not needed. I'll have the post updated to reflect that.

      Delete
  2. Hi Larry,

    It's very good and usefull script.
    It's save our lot of time.

    just want to ask, can we pull system name from a text file instead of mention directly in code.

    so that a L1 engg can update system name without touching the code.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Hi, Thanks for the question. You should be able to pull in a text file quite easily by replacing this line:

      $computers = ("server1","server2","server3","server4")

      With:

      $computers = Get-Content C:\temp\ServerNames.txt

      In your "ServerNames.txt" file, you should format it as one system name per line.

      Now I haven't had an opportunity to test this, yet, but when I do I will let you know if that works for sure (unless you play around with it before I can). You can read more on the Get-Content command here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692806.aspx

      Delete
  3. Thank you, really simple and usefull!
    Regards,

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Visio Stencils Pack for Azure and Microsoft Integration (v5.0.0)

First off, I'd like to send a big shout out to Sandro Pereira who's been managing the vision stencils pack. Essentially, I'm re-posting his information here, because I had a really hard time finding the latest Visio pack for Azure, that wasn't a bunch of SVG's. My thought is that if more people re-post, maybe the search engines of the internet will have an easier time propagating the information... Sandero's Blog (the original post around the new stencils): https://blog.sandro-pereira.com/2019/10/18/microsoft-integration-and-azure-stencils-pack-for-visio-new-major-version-available-v5-0-0/ Sandero's GitHub: https://github.com/sandroasp/Microsoft-Integration-and-Azure-Stencils-Pack-for-Visio Microsoft TechNet Download: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Collection-of-Integration-e6a3f4d0 I will say, and maybe it's just because I'm using Visio 2013, each icon has a boarder that needs to be removed when putting it on the page... Likely it

Disable Security Features to Dual Boot OS X - El Capitan

So, I've recently been working on updating/rebuilding my latest little friend (an 11" MacBook Air) to dual boot the latest OS X, El Capitan, and Kali. I'll go over everything in full detail as soon as I can finish the setup, but I wanted to get this out there for anyone else that may stumble upon any issues with setting up rEFInd on an updated mac. To start, while on Yosemite, I downloaded El Capitan from the App Store, and copied the install files to a USB. From there I preformed my upgrade. This might not be a good option for some people, as I'm sure your mac might be your primary computer... For me, that's not a problem. I tend to keep my essentials on USB drives / cloud storage as I tend to need access from different devices (phone, computer, tablet, etc.). After preforming a clean install of El Capitan, I headed over to the rEFInd website, download the program and ran the install.sh script... Now, that appears to work, like it did with pervious versions of

Windows Server 2008: Log on as batch job

From time to time, I have to set up some scheduled tasks that required a dedicated account to run. And when doing so, I'll usually forget that the dedicated account usually isn't given any more permissions than what it needs to complete the task at hand. So, after setting up the task, Windows will usually yell at me and say "The account needs batch job rights". So here's how to grant batch job permissions on your server. Go to your start menu, and start searching for Local Security Policy In the left pane of the MMC that opens up, expand Local Policies, and highlight User Rights Assignment. Now, in the left right pane, locate "Log on as a batch job" and double click it. In the properties window that opens up, add the user or group that needs this permission. I find that if you have multiple service accounts running different tasks on the same server, it's easier to just add a group verses the individual a