(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)
Is there any way to do this? We need a report that shows Windows and Linux disk sizes along with free space and percent free space. Thx!
(imported comment written by BenKus)
Hi jspaniz,
Yep… this should be easy… There are lots of examples of properties you might use:
http://support.bigfix.com/bes/misc/retrievedproperties.html#File
After adding the properties you want, you can make a “Computer Properties” report in web reports that displays all this info.
As a note, if you want to see the total spaces of the fixed drives (rather than broken down by drive), you can use the property:
Q: (item 0 of it as string & " MB free / " & item 1 of it as string & " MB total (" & (item 0 of it *100 / item 1 of it ) as string & " percent free)") of (((it / 1000 / 1000)) of sum of free spaces of drives whose (type of it = “DRIVE_FIXED”),((it / 1000 / 1000)) of sum of total spaces of drives whose (type of it = “DRIVE_FIXED”))
A: 22267 MB free / 99971 MB total (22 percent free)
Or you can separate that into three separate properties (if you want 3 columns)…
Ben
(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)
Ben,
As always, thanks for the fast reply! I’ll give it a shot with the info you provided. Now the tough question: How would one generate pretty pie charts to go along with each drives space and total drive space for each server?
One last thing; if BigFix would introduce some type of enterprise reporting model that had most of these canned reports, that would be incredibly great. I know we’d pay for it.
(imported comment written by BenKus)
Hey jspanitz,
It would be hard to manipulate the standard web reports to specifically give you these graphs… However, this would be possible in a custom report… Maybe I can dig up an example for you… In the meantime, you might check out one of my favorite reports, the “Cool Facts” report at:
http://support.bigfix.com/bes/misc/customreports.html
I can’t talk too much about future releases, but let’s just say that we think you are correct… 
Ben
(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)
Ben,
I ran into a problem with the retrieved property values and web reports. It appears the way the inspectors work between Linux, Solaris and Windows are not the same. At least the way the data is presented is not the same.
“Number of drives” does not populate under linux / solaris. Nor does “free space of drives”. How can we create a report with consistent data presented in the correct columns?
(imported comment written by jr6591)
I am trying to do a WebReport or even an analysis trying to get some information on Relay Servers and Disk Space on ALL drives.
I can create an analysis, but it shows multiple results (C and Drive).
Is there a way to show multiple results info in a column format
Relay Server Name Free Space on C Drive Free Space on D Drive IP Address
Personally, I find WebReports not very useful at all when it comes to displaying the info as you would like it.
(imported comment written by BenKus)
Hi jr,
Do you have separate properties for each drive? If so, you can use a “computer properties” report for and choose the properties in the “Summarize” options.
And yes… we find it extremely difficult to try to anticipate every single possible display format that our customers want because of the general purpose nature of the Fixlets, properties, and the whole platform. We have some ideas we are currently implementing and we will see soon if it will meet all your needs.
jspanitz, I never responded to you… you can either make multiple properties or make a single property that works for all OSes… for instance, something like:
if (name of operating system as lowercase contains “win”) then number of drives else if (name of operating system as lowercase contains “mac” then number of volumes …
and so on…
Ben