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Discover Windows Physical Disks

Microsoft.Windows.Client.2000.PhysicalDisk.Discovery (Discovery)

This rule uses WMI to discover all Windows physical disks.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This Discovery Rule discovers and populates the Windows 2000 class named “Windows 2000 Physical Disk” with instances of Physical Disks that are discovered on Windows 2000.

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.Windows.Client.2000.Computer
EnabledFalse
Frequency3600
RemotableFalse

Object Discovery Details:

Discovered Classes and their attribuets:
  • Microsoft.Windows.Client.2000.PhysicalDisk
    • DisplayName
    • DeviceID
    • Name
    • Description
    • Caption
    • Index
    • InterfaceType
    • Manufacturer
    • Model
    • SCSIBus
    • SCSILogicalUnit
    • SCSIPort
    • SCSITargetID
    • Size
    • TotalCylinders
    • TotalHeads
    • TotalSectors
    • TotalTracks
    • TracksPerCylinder
    • PerfmonInstance
Discovered relationships and their attribuets:

Member Modules:

ID Module Type TypeId RunAs 
DiscoveryDataSource DataSource Microsoft.Windows.Client.2000.PhysicalDiskDiscovery.ModuleType Default

Source Code:

<Discovery ID="Microsoft.Windows.Client.2000.PhysicalDisk.Discovery" Enabled="false" Target="Microsoft.Windows.Client.2000.Computer">

  <Category>Discovery</Category>

  <DiscoveryTypes>

    <DiscoveryClass TypeID="Microsoft.Windows.Client.2000.PhysicalDisk">

      <Property TypeID="System!System.Entity" PropertyID="DisplayName"/>

      <Property TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice" PropertyID="DeviceID"/>

      <Property TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice" PropertyID="Name"/>

      <Property TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice" PropertyID="Description"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="Caption"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="Index"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="InterfaceType"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="Manufacturer"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="Model"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="SCSIBus"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="SCSILogicalUnit"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="SCSIPort"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="SCSITargetID"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="Size"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="TotalCylinders"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="TotalHeads"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="TotalSectors"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="TotalTracks"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="TracksPerCylinder"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.PhysicalDisk" PropertyID="PerfmonInstance"/>

    </DiscoveryClass>

    <DiscoveryRelationship TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.ComputerHostsLogicalDevice"/>

  </DiscoveryTypes>

  <DataSource ID="DiscoveryDataSource" TypeID="Microsoft.Windows.Client.2000.PhysicalDiskDiscovery.ModuleType">

    <Computer>$Target/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</Computer>

    <IntervalSeconds>3600</IntervalSeconds>

    <TimeoutSeconds>360</TimeoutSeconds>

  </DataSource>

</Discovery>