Disk Utilization (Performance)

Disk Utilization (Performance) monitor provides disk capacity and utilization metrics. It is a core WhatsUp Gold performance monitor that cannot be removed from the Monitors Library. This monitor requires SNMP or Windows (WMI) credentials. If you collect from a VMware environment, you will need VWware credentials.

1. Configure the following fields from the Device Properties view.
   • Protocol. Choose a Network Management protocol to use for performance metrics.
   • Collect data for. Specify either of the following:
     • Specific disks to collect metrics for.
     • All Disks.
   • Data collection interval. Specify polling frequency.
   • Advanced Options. You can select Timeout, Retry, and disk identification (Disk Uniqueness), which is how it will be identified in the table grid in the disk utilization reports.
2. Click OK to save the monitor settings for this device.

See Also Performance Monitors Active Script (Performance) APC UPS (Performance) CPU Utilization (Performance) PowerShell Scripting Printer (Performance) Hyper-V Virtual Machine Disk Activity JMX (Performance) Memory Utilization (Performance) Ping Latency and Availability SNMP (Performance) SQL Query (Performance) SSH (Performance) VMware Datastore IOPS Windows Performance Counter Configuring WMI Formatted Counter monitors WMI Performance Monitor Hyper-V Event Log Monitor (Built-in) Hyper-V Host Virtual Machines Monitor