anyone know of a free solution for monitoring disk space, memory, etc, and emailing periodic reports and when emergency conditions are met? I can't find anything decent

11/7/2005 11:37:47 AM

why would the data need to be emailed? what would be the purpose?

11/7/2005 1:49:50 PM

i have a computer that I use as a pvr, and so it gets filled up quickly. I need to know when it's getting full right away so that I can remove stuff and/or burn it to a dvd.

also, beacuse I just like having alot of statistical info emailed to me on a regular basis. It makes me feel comfortable, and I love automation.

11/7/2005 4:52:16 PM

windows I assume?

11/7/2005 5:19:04 PM

right click my computer

click manage.

Expand performance logs and alerts.

Right click alerts and choose new alerts settings.

put in a name and hit ok.

enter comments, etc...

Now for the actual important parts. From here you can add a bunch of different counters to monitor your system with.

Click add.

Choose your local machine (or remote machine if you want the alert agents to run off a machine thats not the pvr).

Choose a performance object, ex: logical disk

Choose a counter, ex % free space

Select a drive

click add

hit close

Set the alert value, ex under 10%

Go to the action tab.

Now you're probably gonna need a small command line based email program to actually send you the email. Shouldn't be hard to find though.

11/7/2005 6:15:15 PM

ah, that's not a bad idea. I bet I can find an emailer pretty easily to send me that info

hey th anks, shaggy, that actually worked really well.

I used this
http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinemail.htm

[Edited on November 8, 2005 at 8:39 AM. Reason : .]

11/8/2005 8:10:51 AM