You could use diskpart as the basis of a script. At a command prompt type diskpart and then help to get a list of commands. Use the list disk command to list your disks and then select disk <num> to select it. If you want the status of a partition then you will have to select that as well. The command detail will give you the disk (or partition) status and if it is part of software raid.

To use as a basis of the scripting you could use the ping test from deadcat or the dcdiags script I put on the shire.

There are also some scripts (I wrote some and you are welcome to them) that query the event log. You could keep modify one of them to bring up an alarm when ever certain events occur.

http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net/msg20038. html gives an example of using Logparser to scan the event log for Nagios.

As Raymond suggested WMI will give you some info. PrimalScript gives the follow as an example of querying the disks, the status result may give you what you need.

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On Error Resume Next Dim strComputer Dim objWMIService Dim propValue Dim objItem Dim SWBemlocator Dim UserName Dim Password Dim colItems

strComputer = "." UserName = "" Password = "" Set SWBemlocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") Set objWMIService = SWBemlocator.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\CIMV2",UserName,Password) Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_DiskDrive",,48) For Each objItem in colItems WScript.Echo "Availability: " & objItem.Availability WScript.Echo "BytesPerSector: " & objItem.BytesPerSector for each propValue in objItem.Capabilities WScript.Echo "Capabilities: " & propValue next for each propValue in objItem.CapabilityDescriptions WScript.Echo "CapabilityDescriptions: " & propValue next WScript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption WScript.Echo "CompressionMethod: " & objItem.CompressionMethod WScript.Echo "ConfigManagerErrorCode: " & objItem.ConfigManagerErrorCode WScript.Echo "ConfigManagerUserConfig: " & objItem.ConfigManagerUserConfig WScript.Echo "CreationClassName: " & objItem.CreationClassName WScript.Echo "DefaultBlockSize: " & objItem.DefaultBlockSize WScript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description WScript.Echo "DeviceID: " & objItem.DeviceID WScript.Echo "ErrorCleared: " & objItem.ErrorCleared WScript.Echo "ErrorDescription: " & objItem.ErrorDescription WScript.Echo "ErrorMethodology: " & objItem.ErrorMethodology WScript.Echo "FirmwareRevision: " & objItem.FirmwareRevision WScript.Echo "Index: " & objItem.Index WScript.Echo "InstallDate: " & objItem.InstallDate WScript.Echo "InterfaceType: " & objItem.InterfaceType WScript.Echo "LastErrorCode: " & objItem.LastErrorCode WScript.Echo "Manufacturer: " & objItem.Manufacturer WScript.Echo "MaxBlockSize: " & objItem.MaxBlockSize WScript.Echo "MaxMediaSize: " & objItem.MaxMediaSize WScript.Echo "MediaLoaded: " & objItem.MediaLoaded WScript.Echo "MediaType: " & objItem.MediaType WScript.Echo "MinBlockSize: " & objItem.MinBlockSize WScript.Echo "Model: " & objItem.Model WScript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name WScript.Echo "NeedsCleaning: " & objItem.NeedsCleaning WScript.Echo "NumberOfMediaSupported: " & objItem.NumberOfMediaSupported WScript.Echo "Partitions: " & objItem.Partitions WScript.Echo "PNPDeviceID: " & objItem.PNPDeviceID for each propValue in objItem.PowerManagementCapabilities WScript.Echo "PowerManagementCapabilities: " & propValue next WScript.Echo "PowerManagementSupported: " & objItem.PowerManagementSupported WScript.Echo "SCSIBus: " & objItem.SCSIBus WScript.Echo "SCSILogicalUnit: " & objItem.SCSILogicalUnit WScript.Echo "SCSIPort: " & objItem.SCSIPort WScript.Echo "SCSITargetId: " & objItem.SCSITargetId WScript.Echo "SectorsPerTrack: " & objItem.SectorsPerTrack WScript.Echo "SerialNumber: " & objItem.SerialNumber WScript.Echo "Signature: " & objItem.Signature WScript.Echo "Size: " & objItem.Size WScript.Echo "Status: " & objItem.Status WScript.Echo "StatusInfo: " & objItem.StatusInfo WScript.Echo "SystemCreationClassName: " & objItem.SystemCreationClassName WScript.Echo "SystemName: " & objItem.SystemName WScript.Echo "TotalCylinders: " & objItem.TotalCylinders WScript.Echo "TotalHeads: " & objItem.TotalHeads WScript.Echo "TotalSectors: " & objItem.TotalSectors WScript.Echo "TotalTracks: " & objItem.TotalTracks WScript.Echo "TracksPerCylinder: " & objItem.TracksPerCylinder Next

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If you have just partitions mirrored then the following does the same thing for the partitions

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On Error Resume Next Dim strComputer Dim objWMIService Dim propValue Dim objItem Dim SWBemlocator Dim UserName Dim Password Dim colItems

strComputer = "." UserName = "" Password = "" Set SWBemlocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") Set objWMIService = SWBemlocator.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\CIMV2",UserName,Password) Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_DiskPartition",,48) For Each objItem in colItems WScript.Echo "Access: " & objItem.Access WScript.Echo "Availability: " & objItem.Availability WScript.Echo "BlockSize: " & objItem.BlockSize WScript.Echo "Bootable: " & objItem.Bootable WScript.Echo "BootPartition: " & objItem.BootPartition WScript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption WScript.Echo "ConfigManagerErrorCode: " & objItem.ConfigManagerErrorCode WScript.Echo "ConfigManagerUserConfig: " & objItem.ConfigManagerUserConfig WScript.Echo "CreationClassName: " & objItem.CreationClassName WScript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description WScript.Echo "DeviceID: " & objItem.DeviceID WScript.Echo "DiskIndex: " & objItem.DiskIndex WScript.Echo "ErrorCleared: " & objItem.ErrorCleared WScript.Echo "ErrorDescription: " & objItem.ErrorDescription WScript.Echo "ErrorMethodology: " & objItem.ErrorMethodology WScript.Echo "HiddenSectors: " & objItem.HiddenSectors WScript.Echo "Index: " & objItem.Index WScript.Echo "InstallDate: " & objItem.InstallDate WScript.Echo "LastErrorCode: " & objItem.LastErrorCode WScript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name WScript.Echo "NumberOfBlocks: " & objItem.NumberOfBlocks WScript.Echo "PNPDeviceID: " & objItem.PNPDeviceID for each propValue in objItem.PowerManagementCapabilities WScript.Echo "PowerManagementCapabilities: " & propValue next WScript.Echo "PowerManagementSupported: " & objItem.PowerManagementSupported WScript.Echo "PrimaryPartition: " & objItem.PrimaryPartition WScript.Echo "Purpose: " & objItem.Purpose WScript.Echo "RewritePartition: " & objItem.RewritePartition WScript.Echo "Size: " & objItem.Size WScript.Echo "StartingOffset: " & objItem.StartingOffset WScript.Echo "Status: " & objItem.Status WScript.Echo "StatusInfo: " & objItem.StatusInfo WScript.Echo "SystemCreationClassName: " & objItem.SystemCreationClassName WScript.Echo "SystemName: " & objItem.SystemName WScript.Echo "Type: " & objItem.Type Next

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Hope this helps

Regards Graeme

-----Original Message----- From: Gabriel Girardi Huber [mailto:gabriel at redix.com.br] Sent: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 6:21 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] software raid windows

Hi,

Is there any way or script extern to monitor windows software raid?

Thanks.

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