The WMI Share sensor monitors a shared resource on a Windows system via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
You can set the sensor to the Downstatus for different share status messages.
WMI Share Sensor
For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.
Sensor in Other Languages
Dutch: WMI Share
French: Partage (WMI)
German: WMI Freigabe
Japanese: WMI 共有
Portuguese: Compartilhamento (WMI)
Russian: Ресурс WMI
Simplified Chinese: WMI 共享
Spanish: Recurso compartido (WMI)
Remarks
This sensor has a high performance impact. Try to stay below 200 WMI sensors in total per probe. Above this number, consider using multiple remote probes for load balancing.
This sensor requires WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) for target systems that run Windows Server 2016.
This sensor supports the IPv6 protocol.
You cannot add this sensor to the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance. If you want to use this sensor, add it to a remote probe device.
Add Sensor
The Add Sensor dialog appears when you manually add a new sensor to a device. It only shows the settings that are required to create the sensor. You can change nearly all settings on the sensor's Settings tab after creation.
The settings that you select in the Add Sensor dialog are valid for all sensors that you create when you finish the dialog.
WMI Shared Resource
Setting
Description
Share
Select the shares that you want to monitor. PRTG creates one sensor for each share that you select.
Enable check boxes in front of the respective lines to select the items. Use the check box in the table header to select all items or to cancel the selection. In large tables, use the search function in the upper-right corner.
To provide any shares, the LanmanServer "Server" Windows service must run on the target computer. If it does not run, there are no shares and you see a No Share available message.
Basic Sensor Settings
Click the Settings tab of a sensor to change its settings.
If the name contains angle brackets (<>), PRTG replaces them with braces ({}) for security reasons. For more information, see the Knowledge Base: What security features does PRTG include?
This setting is for your information only. You cannot change it.
Tags
Enter one or more tags. Confirm each tag with the Spacebar key, a comma, or the Enter key. You can use tags to group objects and use tag-filtered views later on. Tags are not case-sensitive. Tags are automatically inherited.
It is not possible to enter tags with a leading plus (+) or minus (-) sign, nor tags with parentheses (()) or angle brackets (<>).
For performance reasons, it can take some minutes until you can filter for new tags that you added.
The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:
wmisharesensor
Priority
Select a priority for the sensor. This setting determines the position of the sensor in lists. The highest priority is at the top of a list. Choose from the lowest priority () to the highest priority ().
Usually, a sensor connects to the IP Address/DNS Name of the parent device. See the device settings for details. For some sensors, you can explicitly define the monitoring target in the sensor settings.
WMI Shared Resource
WMI Shared Resource
Setting
Description
Shared Resource
Shows information about the shared resource that this sensor monitors.
PRTG shows this value for reference purposes only. If you need to change this value, add the sensor anew.
Description
Shows the description of the shared resource that this sensor monitors.
PRTG shows this value for reference purposes only. If you need to change this value, add the sensor anew.
Type
Shows the type of the shared resource that this sensor monitors.
PRTG shows this value for reference purposes only. If you need to change this value, add the sensor anew.
TypeID
Shows the typeID of the shared resource that this sensor monitors.
PRTG shows this value for reference purposes only. If you need to change this value, add the sensor anew.
Trigger Down Status on Following Conditions
Select under which conditions the sensor shows the Downstatus. As long as the share returns OK, the sensor status shows the Up status. Enable the check box in front of the respective line to select a Down condition. Select none, one, or several of the following conditions.
If the sensor is in the Down status, it does not record any data in any of its channels.
Trigger Down Status on Following Conditions
Condition
Description
Error
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns an error status. A share in this status is not operational.
This condition is enabled by default.
Degraded
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a degraded status. A share in this status is still operational.
This condition is enabled by default.
Unknown
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns an unknown status.
Pred Fail
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a predicted fail status. This indicates that an element works properly but predicts a failure (for example, a SMART-enabled hard drive). A share in this status is still operational.
This condition is enabled by default.
Starting
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a starting status. A share in this status is not operational.
Stopping
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a stopping status. A share in this status is not operational.
Service
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a service status. This can apply during disk mirror-resilvering, reloading a user permissions list, or other administrative work on the device that this sensor monitors. Not all such work is done online, but the managed element is neither OK nor has one of the other states. A share in this status is not operational.
Stressed
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a stressed status.
Nonrecover
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a non recover status.
This condition is enabled by default.
NoContact
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a no contact status.
This condition is enabled by default.
LostComm
Set the sensor to the Down status if the share returns a lost communication status.
This condition is enabled by default.
Debug Options
Debug Options
Setting
Description
Result Handling
Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:
Discard result: Do not store the sensor result.
Store result: Store the last sensor result in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file name is Result of Sensor [ID].Data.txt. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites this file with each scanning interval.
In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.
Sensor Display
Sensor Display
Setting
Description
Primary Channel
Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, the last value of the primary channel is always displayed below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.
You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.
Graph Type
Define how different channels are shown for this sensor:
Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel.
Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic. You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).
Stack Unit
This setting is only visible if you enable Stack channels on top of each other as Graph Type. Select a unit from the list. All channels with this unit are stacked on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.
Inherited Settings
By default, all of these settings are inherited from objects that are higher in the hierarchy. We recommend that you change them centrally in the root group settings if necessary. To change a setting for this object only, click under the corresponding setting name to disable the inheritance and to display its options.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Scanning Interval.
Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window
You cannot interrupt the inheritance for schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. The corresponding settings from the parent objects are always active. However, you can define additional schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. They are active at the same time as the parent objects' settings.
Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window.
Access Rights
Access Rights
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Access Rights.
Channel List
Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.
Channel
Description
Available
The availability of the share in milliseconds (msec)
This channel is the primary channel by default.
Downtime
In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status