Monitoring Drive and Database Free Space

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Monitoring Drive and Database Free Space

markenash

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June 21, 2004 at 1:39 pm

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Fred Salchli Grasshopper Points: 15 More actions · Answer 1

Where's the beef? Most of the code to utilize this outstanding monitoring system is not included! Please make source available.

Thanks!

Kishore.P SSCrazy Eights Points: 8147 More actions · Answer 2

Some stored procedures were missed, like

EXEC msdb..sp_Monitor_Capture_DB_Space_Info

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_Monitor_Email_Low_DB_FreeSpace 0.1

EXEC msdb..sp_MSSQL_Recovery_Info

Joan OBryan Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 510 More actions · Answer 3

This article is a good read, but would be much more useful if the rest of the code was included.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736172 More actions · Answer 4

Apologies!

My fault. Mark asked me to link it in and I forgot . It's up there now.

Joan OBryan Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 510 More actions · Answer 5

Awsome. Thanks, Steve. Can you also change my vote to "Excellent" for me?

Sree-121435 Grasshopper Points: 21 More actions · Answer 6

I have followed all steps but couldn't able to produce the report when i ran sp_DASD_Report it only shows servername and list of databases on that particular server.

Is there anyting need to be modified for the given code?

Thanks,

markenash Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 507 More actions · Answer 7

Good morning Sree,

I am sorry to hear you have had problems. Here are the points I check first.

If the dates on the report are all '20201225' (December 25, 2020) then you are just reporting the 'separator' row. I put in this row just to create a break between databases. I figured I would never be using this system in 2020 🙂

- Do a TSQL select on the DASD table and just make sure there are rows in it other than the above separator rows.

- We run the job that populates the DASD table once daily, between 04:00 and 04:59 on all servers. We found that reporting on all days of the week was too much detailed information for a general report, so we limited it to just report DASD rows created on Friday between 04:00 - 04:59.

Possibly the issue in the 'insert into #DASDRpt' statement. The 'select' in this statement was designed to only select rows created on

1) Friday "datepart(dw,(convert(....)))) = 6"

2) created during hour '04' "substring(createDTM,9,2) = '04'"

If you have not scheduled the job that creates DASD rows to run at least on Friday between 04:00 - 04:59 you will not return any rows.

If the date, time selects are the issue, modify the report sql as you wish.

Let me know if this information helps, if not we will look further!!

rscarlson SSC Eights! Points: 856 More actions · Answer 8

I found this an easier approach

I run the following batch file at logon:

cscript status.vbs

rem pause

The status.vbs is as below, you need admin access, the name of the computer and a drive mapped to same, and the drive letter of the drive you want to read the size of. This returns a web page with the drive size in mega bytes and alerts if less than 2 gigabytes (the threshold = 2000). I monitor several databases with this script and the web page shows at a glance potential trouble spots (just repeat the code for other dbs).

' Returns drive size results to an HTML file.

On Error Resume Next

' HTML coding

const H_HEAD = "<HTML><HEAD>"

const T_HEAD = "<TITLE>STATUS REPORT</TITLE></HEAD>"

const B_HEAD = "<BODY BACKGROUND=one.jpg><CENTER><H3>STATUS REPORT - - DATE: "

const H_CLOSE = "</CENTER></BODY></HTML>"

' HTML TABLE CODES

const S_TABLE = "<TABLE BORDER=4 CELLPADDING=3>"

const T_TABLE = "<TR><TH>FILE NAME</TH><TH>STATUS</TH></TR>"

const E_TABLE = "</TABLE><BR>"

' HTML SUCCESS OR FAILURE CODE

const F_SUCCESS = "<TD ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR=GREEN>OK</FONT></TD></TR>"

const F_FAILED = "<TD ALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=WHITE><FONT COLOR=RED SIZE=+1><B>FAILED</B></FONT></TD></TR>"

' Conversion codes Bites to Megabytes and 2000 megabytes threshold

const CONVERSION_FACTOR = 1048576

const WARNING_THRESHOLD = 2000

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer)

Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery _

("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process")

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set objNewFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("statusSize.htm")

objNewFile.WriteLine H_HEAD

objNewFile.WriteLine T_HEAD

objNewFile.WriteLine B_HEAD & Now() & "</H3>"

objNewFile.WriteLine "<FONT COLOR=PURPLE><B>DATABASE SPACE ON DRIVE E:</B></FONT>"

objNewFile.WriteLine S_TABLE

Computer = "ComputerName"

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts://" & Computer)

Set objLogicalDisk = objWMIService.Get("Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID='e:'")

FreeMegaBytes = objLogicalDisk.FreeSpace / CONVERSION_FACTOR

If FreeMegaBytes < WARNING_THRESHOLD Then

objNewFile.WriteLine "<TR><TD BGCOLOR=WHITE><FONT COLOR=RED SIZE=+1><B>INADEQUATE</B></FONT></TD>"

objNewFile.WriteLine "<TD BGCOLOR=WHITE>Actual Space " & Int(FreeMegaBytes) & " Megabytes.</TD></TR>"

Else

objNewFile.WriteLine "<TR><TD BGCOLOR=CCFFCC>ADEQUATE</TD>"

objNewFile.WriteLine "<TD BGCOLOR=CCFFCC>Actual Space " & Int(FreeMegaBytes) & " Megabytes.</TD></TR>"

End If

objNewFile.WriteLine E_TABLE

objNewFile.WriteLine H_CLOSE

const MAXIMIZE_WINDOW = 3

Set objNetwork = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Network")

Set objShell = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

objShell.Run "statusSize.htm", MAXIMIZE_WINDOW

markenash Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 507 More actions · Answer 9

Good morning rscarlson,

Our space monitoring system was presented in the article for review and evaluation by fellow DBA's. Those that deemed it useful were free to install all or part of it at their sites. This system fits our institutions needs for space management.

You have developed your own system for space management, we are glad it fulfills your sites needs.

Aaron Myers Ten Centuries Points: 1139 More actions · Answer 10

Thanks for the script Rcarlson! It doesn't quite do the same thing but it is more useful in general (non sql server administration). I think I'll parameterize the inputs so there will be nothing hardcoded inside the script.

Tory Skyers Grasshopper Points: 22 More actions · Answer 11

I'm an SQL newbie but very familiar w/ os level scripting, WMI can be costly be careful where and when you use it! . Your script is great btw, i use a similar script locally on some servers to monitor and kick out to an opensource system monitor however i've found that certain WMI queries can be taxing on systems.

Using a native to the db call on the system the db is running on in theory should be less costly cpu/resource wise than using wmi. Then there is wmi security, network transport security etc, all of which you avoid by using the db system service to run the queries.

On a semi-related note, did you use wbemtest to find the properties of the disk device? I've been having some trouble locating particular wmi attribute detail. Do you know if sql publishes info via wmi?

Aaron Myers Ten Centuries Points: 1139 More actions · Answer 12

I totally agree, Mark's monitor is great for efficiently tracking individual DB's inside SQL. I get a little nervous modifying MSDB or running XP procedures so there is a little tweaking I may do there to isolate the security and data.

Tory, what is the open source system monitor you are using? I've been playing around with Perfmon logging directly to SQL, and building some of my own ASP.NET to tie the data together in web pages.

http://aaronsmyers.blogspot.com/2005/04/nlogger-update.html

If there is already something out there to help, by all means I'd like to give it a try. MOM is just too expensive to justify for most of our servers/applications.

Henrik Staun Poulsen-237657 Old Hand Points: 346 More actions · Answer 13

Mark,

I'm getting a negative free_DB_Space for two of our databases. When running these two queries: select size, maxsize 'maxsize' from sysfiles where (status & 64 = 0) compute sum(size)

select sum(reserved) 'totalreserved' from [sysindexes] where indid in (0, 1, 255) I get

size maxsize

----------- -----------

319872 -1

9600000 -1

109120 -1

9487992 -1

===========

19516984

totalreserved

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20830649

So the sum from sysindexes is bigger than sysfiles. Is this because we're using filegroups on these databases?

TIA

Henrik Staun Poulsen, Denmark

markenash Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 507 More actions · Answer 14

Hello Henrik,

Sorry for the slow response, been on vacation since 7/2/05.

Whenever we get negative numbers for free_DB_Space there has been a problem with sysindexes. Try running DBCC UPDATEUSAGE (dbname) and see if you get positive numbers..