Discover Windows Logical Disks

Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.LogicalDisk.Discovery (Discovery)

This rule uses WMI to discover all Windows logical disks excluding removable drives and network drives. This rule does not discover drives mounted with no drive letter. There is a separate discovery rule for such drives.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This Discovery Rule discovers and populates the Windows Server Class named “Windows Server 2008 Logical Disk" with instances of Logical Disks (for example C:, D:) that are discovered on Windows 2008 Servers. Please note that only Local Disks are detected. Logical Disks that are classified as Removable, Compact Disk, Network Drive, and RAM Disks are excluded.

Element properties:

Target	Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.OperatingSystem
Enabled	True
Frequency	86460
Remotable	False

Object Discovery Details:

Discovered Classes and their attribuets:
Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.LogicalDisk DeviceID Name Description VolumeName FileSystem Compressed Size SizeNumeric SizeInMBs DriveType SupportsDiskQuota QuotasDisabled SupportsFileBasedCompression
Discovered relationships and their attribuets:
Microsoft.Windows.ComputerHostsLogicalDevice

Member Modules:

ID	Module Type	TypeId	RunAs
DiscoveryDataSource	DataSource	Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.LogicalDiskDiscovery.ModuleType	Default

Source Code:

<Discovery ID="Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.LogicalDisk.Discovery" Enabled="true" Target="Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.OperatingSystem">

  <Category>Discovery</Category>

  <DiscoveryTypes>

    <DiscoveryClass TypeID="Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.LogicalDisk">

      <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="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="VolumeName"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsServer!Microsoft.Windows.Server.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="FileSystem"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsServer!Microsoft.Windows.Server.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="Compressed"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsServer!Microsoft.Windows.Server.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="Size"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsServer!Microsoft.Windows.Server.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="SizeNumeric"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsServer!Microsoft.Windows.Server.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="SizeInMBs"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsServer!Microsoft.Windows.Server.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="DriveType"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsServer!Microsoft.Windows.Server.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="SupportsDiskQuota"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsServer!Microsoft.Windows.Server.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="QuotasDisabled"/>

      <Property TypeID="WindowsServer!Microsoft.Windows.Server.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="SupportsFileBasedCompression"/>

    </DiscoveryClass>

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

  </DiscoveryTypes>

  <DataSource ID="DiscoveryDataSource" TypeID="Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.LogicalDiskDiscovery.ModuleType">

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

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

    <IntervalSeconds>86460</IntervalSeconds>

    <TimeoutSeconds>360</TimeoutSeconds>

  </DataSource>

</Discovery>