Can I get the "Active Time Percentage" of the physical drives programmatically?

Question

How can I get the "Highest Active Time" of the drives programmatically?

I can see it on Resources Monitor, but I want to get it programmatically with a script (VBScript, Batch) or application, so I can upload the status of my servers to a database without the need to check each one manually.

Also, is possible to get this status without adminstrator rights?

Thanks

Answer 1

The "Highest Active Percentage" that you see in Resource Monitor is simply the highest active time seen BY Resource Monitor over the time it gathers the statistics, and isn't something that the system keeps for you. What you can do is gather the relevant statistic yourself on a periodic basis and use it to work it out.

You can get disk usage statistcs using WMI; an example PowerShell script to get the current PercentDiskTime statistic for all disks at this point in time would be:

$wmi = Get-WMIObject -Class "Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_PhysicalDisk" -Filter 'Name = "_Total"'
$wmi.PercentDiskTime

You can filter on the expression to get the statistics you want, or change the -Filter 'Name = "_Total"' parameter to change to the disk you're interested in, or even remove it altogether if you want stats for everything.

You can use this to work out the highest value your script has seen so far.