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PRTG Custom WMI Query Regarding Disk Performance Status

I am trying to figure out a way to pull disk perfmon status from windows 2008 and 2012 (will be accessing remote systems), I am particularly interested in Disk Read/Write Bytes per second. I am intending to put this into PRTG but need to create a good powershell script, this will need to impersonate another user (service account). Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Gary Patterson, CISSP

You can use the PS cmdlet "Get-counter", and pipe the output to Export-counter

C:\Users\mallen>Get-counter "\\servername\PhysicalDisk(*)\% Disk Time" -SampleInterval 2 -MaxSamples 100 | Export-counter -Path somepath\export.blg

Basic article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee872428.aspx
Get-Counter documentation: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849685.aspx (lots of examples here)

This article explains how to use Get-Counter -ListSet to retrieve a dynamic list of counters (for example, if you want the counters for each physical drive on each target system, but you don't want to hardcode drive letters):

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/07/28/use-performance-counter-sets-and-powershell-to-ease-baselining.aspx

Note that you can specify multiple remote computers, and multiple counters in a single command.

smyers051972

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Hello, I tested this recommendation and in part worked, I have found out they want to monitor more, there are 4 items and I am attaching the screen shot, they are highlighted in grey.
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Thanks for the assist!