RunningLow - PowerShell script to check for disk space and send e-mail A free PowerShell script that will check for low disk space on local and/or network drives and servers and send e-mail to System Administrators

August 31, 2017August 23, 2019 - by Ryan - 37 Comments. 45.9K

Table of Contents

Source Code
Configuration
Testing
- Sending E-Mail Alerts
Installing
Useful Links

Today I would like to share with our readers RunningLow, a simple yet effective PowerShell script I coded a while ago to get to know when one of my servers is running low of disk space.

Whoever works with physical and/or virtualized Windows Servers is well aware of the importance of keeping this constantly under control: as soon as a server runs out of disk space it will be unable to fullfill a number of tasks, such as: create temporary files, store data on a database, performing system maintenance / backup / updates, create or update web sessions - assuming they are handled through I/O - and so on. Things can be even worse for those servers who host DBMS services such as MySQL and MS-SQL, as the sudden I/O unavailability could cause non-trivial damages to indexes, filesystem-based tables and data integrity.

The main purpose of RunningLow is to prevent all that: it will check one or more local and/or network drives to see if their available free space went under a certain quota, and send a customizable alert to one or more e-mail addresses if that's the case. I know, there are A LOT of admin suites and maintenance software that could be easily configured to the same thing: even Piriform's CCleaner PRO does that! However, if you don't have the money, the time or the amount of system resources required to install these apps, you might find out that this lightweight alternative could be worth a shot.

UPDATE: RunningLow 1.1 (and later) added support for network drives and a whole set of CLI configuration parameters: be sure to check it out!

Source Code

Anyway, here's the script source code:

# Drives to check: set to $null or empty to check all local (non-network) drives
# $drives = @("C","D");
$drives = $null;

# The minimum disk size to check for raising the warning
$minSize = 20GB;

# SMTP configuration: username, password & so on
$email_username = "username@yourdomain.com";
$email_password = "yourpassword";
$email_smtp_host = "smtp.yourdomain.com";
$email_smtp_port = 25;
$email_smtp_SSL = 0;
$email_from_address = "username@yourdomain.com";
$email_to_addressArray = @("to1@yourdomain.com", "to2@yourdomain.com");


if ($drives -eq $null -Or $drives -lt 1) {
    $localVolumes = Get-WMIObject win32_volume;
    $drives = @();
    foreach ($vol in $localVolumes) {
        if ($vol.DriveType -eq 3 -And $vol.DriveLetter -ne $null ) {
            $drives += $vol.DriveLetter[0];
        }
    }
}
foreach ($d in $drives) {
    Write-Host ("`r`n");
    Write-Host ("Checking drive " + $d + " ...");
    $disk = Get-PSDrive $d;
    if ($disk.Free -lt $minSize) {
        Write-Host ("Drive " + $d + " has less than " + $minSize `
            + " bytes free (" + $disk.free + "): sending e-mail...");
        
        $message = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage;
        $message.From = $email_from_address;
        foreach ($to in $email_to_addressArray) {
            $message.To.Add($to);
        }
        $message.Subject =  ("[RunningLow] WARNING: " + $env:computername + " drive " + $d);
        $message.Subject += (" has less than " + $minSize + " bytes free ");
        $message.Subject += ("(" + $disk.Free + ")");
        $message.Body =     "Hello there, `r`n`r`n";
        $message.Body +=    "this is an automatic e-mail message ";
        $message.Body +=    "sent by RunningLow Powershell script ";
        $message.Body +=    ("to inform you that " + $env:computername + " drive " + $d + " ");
        $message.Body +=    "is running low on free space. `r`n`r`n";
        $message.Body +=    "--------------------------------------------------------------";
        $message.Body +=    "`r`n";
        $message.Body +=    ("Machine HostName: " + $env:computername + " `r`n");
        $message.Body +=    "Machine IP Address(es): ";
        $ipAddresses = Get-NetIPAddress -AddressFamily IPv4;
        foreach ($ip in $ipAddresses) {
            if ($ip.IPAddress -like "127.0.0.1") {
                continue;
            }
            $message.Body += ($ip.IPAddress + " ");
        }
        $message.Body +=    "`r`n";
        $message.Body +=    ("Used space on drive " + $d + ": " + $disk.Used + " bytes. `r`n");
        $message.Body +=    ("Free space on drive " + $d + ": " + $disk.Free + " bytes. `r`n");
        $message.Body +=    "--------------------------------------------------------------";
        $message.Body +=    "`r`n`r`n";
        $message.Body +=    "This warning will fire when the free space is lower ";
        $message.Body +=    ("than " + $minSize + " bytes `r`n`r`n");
        $message.Body +=    "Sincerely, `r`n`r`n";
        $message.Body +=    "-- `r`n";
        $message.Body +=    "RunningLow`r`n";
                $message.Body +=        "https://www.ryadel.com/RunningLow";

        $smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($email_smtp_host, $email_smtp_port);
        $smtp.EnableSSL = $email_smtp_SSL;
        $smtp.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($email_username, $email_password);
        $smtp.send($message);
        $message.Dispose();
        write-host "... E-Mail sent!" ; 
    }
    else {
        Write-Host ("Drive " + $d + " has more than " + $minSize + " bytes free: nothing to do.");
    }
}

# Drives to check: set to $null or empty to check all local (non-network) drives

# $drives = @("C","D");

$drives = $null;

# The minimum disk size to check for raising the warning

$minSize = 20GB;

# SMTP configuration: username, password & so on

$email_username = "[email protected]";

$email_password = "yourpassword";

$email_smtp_host = "smtp.yourdomain.com";

$email_smtp_port = 25;

$email_smtp_SSL = 0;

$email_from_address = "[email protected]";

$email_to_addressArray = @("[email protected]", "[email protected]");

if ($drives -eq $null -Or $drives -lt 1) {

$localVolumes = Get-WMIObject win32_volume;

$drives = @();

foreach ($vol in $localVolumes) {

if ($vol.DriveType -eq 3 -And $vol.DriveLetter -ne $null ) {

$drives += $vol.DriveLetter[0];

}

foreach ($d in $drives) {

Write-Host ("`r`n");

Write-Host ("Checking drive " + $d + " ...");

$disk = Get-PSDrive $d;

if ($disk.Free -lt $minSize) {

Write-Host ("Drive " + $d + " has less than " + $minSize `

+ " bytes free (" + $disk.free + "): sending e-mail...");

$message = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage;

$message.From = $email_from_address;

foreach ($to in $email_to_addressArray) {

$message.To.Add($to);

}

$message.Subject = ("[RunningLow] WARNING: " + $env:computername + " drive " + $d);

$message.Subject += (" has less than " + $minSize + " bytes free ");

$message.Subject += ("(" + $disk.Free + ")");

$message.Body = "Hello there, `r`n`r`n";

$message.Body += "this is an automatic e-mail message ";

$message.Body += "sent by RunningLow Powershell script ";

$message.Body += ("to inform you that " + $env:computername + " drive " + $d + " ");

$message.Body += "is running low on free space. `r`n`r`n";

$message.Body += "--------------------------------------------------------------";

$message.Body += "`r`n";

$message.Body += ("Machine HostName: " + $env:computername + " `r`n");

$message.Body += "Machine IP Address(es): ";

$ipAddresses = Get-NetIPAddress -AddressFamily IPv4;

foreach ($ip in $ipAddresses) {

if ($ip.IPAddress -like "127.0.0.1") {

continue;

}

$message.Body += ($ip.IPAddress + " ");

}

$message.Body += "`r`n";

$message.Body += ("Used space on drive " + $d + ": " + $disk.Used + " bytes. `r`n");

$message.Body += ("Free space on drive " + $d + ": " + $disk.Free + " bytes. `r`n");

$message.Body += "--------------------------------------------------------------";

$message.Body += "`r`n`r`n";

$message.Body += "This warning will fire when the free space is lower ";

$message.Body += ("than " + $minSize + " bytes `r`n`r`n");

$message.Body += "Sincerely, `r`n`r`n";

$message.Body += "-- `r`n";

$message.Body += "RunningLow`r`n";

$message.Body += "https://www.ryadel.com/RunningLow";

$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($email_smtp_host, $email_smtp_port);

$smtp.EnableSSL = $email_smtp_SSL;

$smtp.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($email_username, $email_password);

$smtp.send($message);

$message.Dispose();

write-host "... E-Mail sent!" ;

}

else {

Write-Host ("Drive " + $d + " has more than " + $minSize + " bytes free: nothing to do.");

}

Copy/paste it into a text file, save it to RunningLow.ps1 (or any other name) and you should be set. Alternatively, you can also download the latest version from the project's official GitHub repo.

Configuration

The first ten or so lines host the configuration settings, which you should change accordingly to your needs and depending to your specific scenario. The most important thing to understand is the first line: as we can see, we can either specify an array of drives - including network drives, as long as they're permanently mapped to a local drive letter - or set a null value: if we go for the latter, the script will check all local drives.

The comments should be enough to guide you through this required part: however, if you need further assistance, you can use the comment section of this post to submit your query and I'll do my best to help you with that.

Testing

As soon as you're done with the configuration, you can test the script from the standard Windows Command Prompt with the following command:

> powershell -executionpolicy bypass -File RunningLow.ps1

1	> powershell -executionpolicy bypass -File RunningLow.ps1

... Or by typing

.\RunningLow.ps1

from a PowerShell prompt.

As soon as you hit ENTER, you should see something like this:

... Meaning that everything went ok.

Sending E-Mail Alerts

Needless to say, you should then edit the script, raise the $minSize value to a ridiculously high amount (such as 5TB) and run another test to ensure that the e-mail alerts will actually be sent:

... That's it.

Installing

It goes without saying that the script should not be launched manually: the best thing we can do to ensure that it will be executed on regular basis is to create an appropriate entry in the Windows Task Scheduler. In the example below, RunningLow will be executed once a day at noon:

In the New Action window you can either insert the full execution statement (including parameters) in the Program/script textbox, or use the Add arguments (optional) textbox: the script will work either way. Similarly, you can specify the full path of the RunningLow.ps1 file within the -File parameter or put it into the Start in (optional) textbox, just like we did in the above screenshot.

IMPORTANT: In the scheduled task General tab, be sure to activate the options Run whether the user is logged on or not and Run with highest priviledges, otherwise the script would run only if there's a logged-in user during the execution time.

Be sure to test it again - by setting an insanely high $minSize - on the server as well, to be sure that there are no firewalls or other restrictions that would block the e-mail alerts.

Well, that's it for now: I sincerely hope that you will enjoy having RunningLow on your servers just like I do!

Useful Links

RunningLow official repository on GitHub.

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About Ryan

IT Project Manager, Web Interface Architect and Lead Developer for many high-traffic web sites & services hosted in Italy and Europe. Since 2010 it's also a lead designer for many App and games for Android, iOS and Windows Phone mobile devices for a number of italian companies. Microsoft MVP for Development Technologies since 2018.

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37 Comments on “RunningLow - PowerShell script to check for disk space and send e-mail A free PowerShell script that will check for low disk space on local and/or network drives and servers and send e-mail to System Administrators”

Ricky says:

October 16, 2017 at 21:20

how to convert bytes to MB or GB in your script? Thanks

Reply
1. Ricky says:
  
  October 16, 2017 at 22:10
  
  use this to convert to MB:
  [math]::round($disk.Used/1MB,2)
  
  2 is number of decimal
  
  Replace MB with KB, GB, or TB if you’re trying to convert other units
  
  Reply
2. Ryan says:
  
  August 23, 2019 at 17:39
  I would just do this:
```
($disk.Free/1MB).ToString(".00") + " GB"
```
  Anyway, the new version already does the conversion either in the CLI screen and in the alert e-mail.
  Reply
Sean says:

January 15, 2019 at 21:41
Hi Ryan,

just wanted to give you a shout to say thanks. Very useful and concise. I personally did away with the email notification, and simply initiated a recursive delete of a folder I know has an ever growing set of files in it over time.
```
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $directory_path_to_delete
```
Reply
1. Ryan says:
  
  January 16, 2019 at 00:31
  
  Thank you! Don’t forget to like us on Facebook if you find our post useful :)
  
  Reply
Ali Ahmed says:

January 24, 2019 at 08:55

Appreciated, really helpful!

Reply
Ajish says:

February 7, 2019 at 21:40

Since mailing goes through SMTP . Is there any way we can use this for DMZ servers?

Reply
Norbert says:

August 23, 2019 at 12:50

Hello Guys,
How can I do, that this script check to other servers too. For example reads a computer lost from txt file.
Thank you very much your help!
:)

Reply
1. Ryan says:
  
  August 23, 2019 at 17:40
  
  Hi there,
  we just published the new version on GitHub with some new features, including the LAN/network support through hostname or IP address (see the -hosts parameter): be sure to check it out!
  
  Reply
Ansar says:

September 12, 2019 at 11:56

I Am getting this error-pls help on this
Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “Failure sending mail.”
At E:\writable\OneDrive\Desktop\Test\RunningLow-master\RunningLow.ps1:74 char:9
+ $smtp.send($message);
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException

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1. Ryan says:
  
  September 25, 2019 at 23:37
  Hello there,
  check your powershell version by executing the following line from a command-line:
```
> powershell $PSversionTable
```
  Tell me which version you’re running: you could have to upgrade it.
  
  Here’s the SmtpClient namespace docs: as you can see, the .Send() method can accept a single parameter.
  https://docs.microsoft.com/it-it/dotnet/api/system.net.mail.smtpclient?view=netframework-4.7.2
  Reply
Dushyant says:

October 15, 2019 at 15:14

-noNewLine : The term ‘-noNewLine’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\dparmar\Desktop\Test.ps1:104 char:48
+ Write-Host(“: sending e-mail…”); -noNewLine
+ ~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (-noNewLine:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

we are getting this error

Reply
1. Ryan says:
  
  December 20, 2019 at 21:48
  
  Maybe you’re using PowerShell v4 or lower: either upgrade your PS to v5+ or just remove that attribute (or use the -join attribute).
  
  Reply
ichayan says:

December 19, 2019 at 17:12

Brilliant script. Would it be possible to tweak this so that the e-mail is sent if the free space is lower than certain percentage rather than free disk space in GB?

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1. Ryan says:
  
  December 20, 2019 at 21:54
  Sure, why not?
  
  Here’s how you calculate the $y% of $x:
```
$x = 100
$y = 25
$result = $x * ($y / 100)
```
  Therefore, instead of doing this:
```
($disk.Size -lt $minSize)
```
  do this:
```
($disk.Size -lt ($y *($disk.FreeSpace/100))
```
  Where $y is the min free percentage you want to check.
  Reply
Ramon says:

June 8, 2020 at 10:29

Hello,

just wanted to thank you for this wonderful script.

Best regards!

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Murali says:

July 2, 2020 at 20:06

Hi Ryan,
Nice Script, Thank you very much.

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dharmendra says:

August 13, 2020 at 15:07

Hi I am getting below error.
PS E:\New folder> powershell -executionpolicy bypass -File RunningLow.ps1

Checking drive E …
Drive E has less than 64424509440 bytes free (53689225216): sending e-mail…
Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “Failure sending mail.”
At E:\New folder\RunningLow.ps1:74 char:9
+ $smtp.send($message);
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException

… E-Mail sent!

Checking drive C …
Drive C has less than 64424509440 bytes free (33066172416): sending e-mail…
Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “Failure sending mail.”
At E:\New folder\RunningLow.ps1:74 char:9
+ $smtp.send($message);
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException

… E-Mail sent!

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1. Ryan says:
  
  August 13, 2020 at 18:00
  
  Try to replace this:
  
  $smtp.send($message); $message.Dispose(); Write-Host " E-Mail sent!" ;
  
  with this:
  
  try { $smtp.send($message); Write-Host " E-Mail sent!" ; } catch { Write-Host " Error sending E-Mail:" ; Write-Host $_.Exception.Message } $message.Dispose();
  
  So that you can see what the actual problem is.
  
  NOTE: GitHub version (1.1.1) already implements this, you can just get it there.
  
  Reply
  1. Green187 says:
    
    September 8, 2020 at 05:34
    
    Hi Ryan,
    I am getting this error:
    
    Checking drive C …
    Drive C has less than 214748364800 bytes free (155964452864): sending e-mail…
    Error sending E-Mail:
    Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “Failure sending mail.”
    
    Checking drive E …
    Drive E has more than 214748364800 bytes free: nothing to do.
    
    Checking drive G …
    Drive G has more than 214748364800 bytes free: nothing to do.
    
    Could you please help me on this ?
    Ps: I am using PowerShell version: 5.1.17763.1007
    Thanks!
    
    Reply
Murali says:

August 14, 2020 at 15:56

Hi Ryan,
Do we have a script to send an email alert for when Memory & CPU usage is high?

Reply
1. Ryan says:
  
  August 14, 2020 at 18:43
  
  Sure, check this out:
  
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12698548/powershell-script-to-generate-alert-on-memory-and-cpu-usage
  
  However, if you want to receive many alerts for various different scenarios, you might want to consider to use a dedicated monitoring tool (for a single PC or the whole IT Infrastructure) such as Nagios and the likes.
  
  Reply
Green187 says:

September 8, 2020 at 06:51

Hello,
I am getting this error:

PS C:\Users\Administrator> C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\RunningLow.ps1

Checking drive C …
Drive C has less than 214748364800 bytes free (156002455552): sending e-mail…
Error sending E-Mail:
Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “Failure sending mail.”

Checking drive E …
Drive E has more than 214748364800 bytes free: nothing to do.

Checking drive G …
Drive G has more than 214748364800 bytes free: nothing to do.

I am using poweshell version 5.1.
Please help me check on this.

Reply
Green187 says:

September 8, 2020 at 10:39

Hi,
I am getting this error:

PS C:\Users\Administrator> C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\RunningLow.ps1

Checking drive C …
Drive C has less than 214748364800 bytes free (155998789632): sending e-mail…
Error sending E-Mail:
Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “Failure sending mail.”

Checking drive E …
Drive E has more than 214748364800 bytes free: nothing to do.

Checking drive G …
Drive G has more than 214748364800 bytes free: nothing to do.

I am using Powershell version 5.1
Could you please help me check on this ?
Thanks!

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dharmendra says:

September 9, 2020 at 12:35

Hi Ryan,
I am not able to send the email through above script. below are configurations . do you think there is some issue with configuration.

SMTP configuration: username, password & so on

$email_username = “[email protected]”;
$email_password = “Newuser15”;
$email_smtp_host = “smtp.teoco.com”;
$email_smtp_port = 25;
$email_smtp_SSL = 0;
$email_from_address = “[email protected]”;
$email_to_addressArray = @(“[email protected]”, “[email protected]”, “[email protected]”);

——————-i am getting below error——————–

Checking drive C …
Drive C has less than 5497558138880 bytes free (36414402560): sending e-mail…
Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.57 SMTP;
Client was not authenticated to send anonymous mail during MAIL FROM [MA1PR01CA0089.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM]”
At D:\RunningLow.ps1:74 char:9
+ $smtp.send($message);
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException

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dharmendra says:

September 9, 2020 at 13:35

Hi Ryan,

i am getting error while sending email. i guess i am doing some mistake on configuration. Appreciate your help.

Below is configuration–

SMTP configuration: username, password & so on

$email_username = “[email protected]”;
$email_password = “XYZ”;
$email_smtp_host = “smtp.outlook.com”;
$email_smtp_port = 25;
$email_smtp_SSL = 0;
$email_from_address = “[email protected]”;
$email_to_addressArray = @(“[email protected]”, “[email protected]”, “[email protected]”);

—————Error————————-

Checking drive C …
Drive C has less than 5497558138880 bytes free (36164149248): sending e-mail…
Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.57 SMTP;
Client was not authenticated to send anonymous mail during MAIL FROM [MA1PR0101CA0036.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM]”
At D:\RunningLow.ps1:74 char:9
+ $smtp.send($message);
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException

… E-Mail sent!

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1. Nfo says:
  
  November 17, 2020 at 14:54
  
  try to change this:
  
  $email_smtp_port = 25; —-> 587
  $email_smtp_SSL = 0; —-> 1
  
  Its for tls secure
  
  Reply
Nfo says:

November 17, 2020 at 14:52

Good morning, the first thing is to thank you for this wonderful work. I’m going to deploy it to a couple of servers. Do you have any that are similar to check cpu load and ram memory consumption? It would be very good. And if everything was in a script, it’d be amazing.

On the other hand, your script has a small flaw. When you check the network disk space to servers by wmi, the server reports the error well, but the report shows the name of the server where it runs and not where it has the problem. The same goes for ips.

Thanks !!

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shrikant says:

January 22, 2021 at 07:34

hi I am getting this error and i am using following smtp settings for gmail
$email_smtp_host = “smtp.gmail.com”;
$email_smtp_port = 587;
$email_smtp_SSL = 1;

Checking drive C …
Drive C has less than 322122547200 bytes free (187064115200): sending e-mail…
Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not
authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.0 Authentication Required. Learn more at”
At C:\Powershell\Test Email Sent.ps1:74 char:1
+ $smtp.send($message);
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException

E-Mail sent!

Checking drive D …
Drive D has less than 322122547200 bytes free (313644326912): sending e-mail…
Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not
authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.0 Authentication Required. Learn more at”
At C:\Powershell\Test Email Sent.ps1:74 char:1
+ $smtp.send($message);
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException

E-Mail sent!

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shrikant says:

January 22, 2021 at 09:57

please help me I am getting following error.I am trying to forward mail to gmail.it did work fine with outlook.I am using port 587 for smtp and set $email_smtp_SSL = 1;

Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client
was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.0 Authentication Required. Learn more at”
At C:\Powershell\Test Email Sent.ps1:74 char:1
+ $smtp.send($message);
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException

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1. AS says:
  
  March 8, 2021 at 17:39
  
  I have the same problem
  
  Reply

hello please Give me a script with percentage parameter for sending mail instead of using $minsize parameter.i have already saw above comment where $x = 100
$y = 25
$result = $x * ($y / 100)
Is given .I had then made changes in my script still I am not able to send email when disk space is less than 10 % of disk space.I have change parameters of email for sending this comment.please check it below and suggest me a solution

Drives to check: set to $null or empty to check all local (non-network) drives

$drives = @(“C”,”D”);

The minimum disk size to check for raising the warning

SMTP configuration: username, password & so on

$email_username = “demo email”;
$email_password = “demo password “;
$email_smtp_host = “smtp.gmail.com”;
$email_smtp_port = 587;
$email_smtp_SSL = 1;
$email_from_address = “demo email”;
$email_to_addressArray = @(“demo email”);

if ($drives -eq $null -Or $drives -lt 1) {
$localVolumes = Get-WMIObject win32_volume;
$drives = @();
foreach ($vol in $localVolumes) {
if ($vol.DriveType -eq 3 -And $vol.DriveLetter -ne $null ) {
$drives += $vol.DriveLetter[0];
}
}
}
foreach ($d in $drives) {
Write-Host (“rn”);
Write-Host (“Checking drive ” + $d + ” …”);
$disk = Get-PSDrive $d;
$x = 100;
$y = 10;
$result = $x * ($y / 100);
if (($disk.Size -lt ($y *($disk.FreeSpace/100)))){
Write-Host (“Drive ” + $d + ” has less than ” + $result `
+ ” bytes free (” + $disk.Free + ” bytes – ” + ($disk.Free/1MB).ToString(“.00″) + ” GB)”);

    $message = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage;
    $message.From = $email_from_address;
    foreach ($to in $email_to_addressArray) {
        $message.To.Add($to);
    }
    $message.Subject =  ("[RunningLow] WARNING: " + $env:computername + " drive " + $d);
    $message.Subject += (" has less than " + $result + " bytes free ");
    $message.Subject += ("(" + $disk.Free + " bytes - "+ ($disk.Free/1GB).ToString(".00") +" GB)");
    $message.Body =     "Hello there, `r`n`r`n";
    $message.Body +=    "this is an automatic e-mail message ";
    $message.Body +=    "sent by RunningLow Powershell script ";
    $message.Body +=    ("to inform you that " + $env:computername + " drive " + $d + " ");
    $message.Body +=    "is running low on free space. `r`n`r`n";
    $message.Body +=    "--------------------------------------------------------------";
    $message.Body +=    "`r`n";
    $message.Body +=    ("Machine HostName: " + $env:computername + " `r`n");
    $message.Body +=    "Machine IP Address(es): ";
    $ipAddresses = Get-NetIPAddress -AddressFamily IPv4;
    foreach ($ip in $ipAddresses) {
        if ($ip.IPAddress -like "127.0.0.1") {
            continue;
        }
        $message.Body += ($ip.IPAddress + " ");
    }
    $message.Body +=    "`r`n";
    $message.Body +=    ("Used space on drive " + $d + ": " + $disk.Used + " bytes. `r`n");
    $message.Body +=    ("Free space on drive " + $d + ": " + $disk.Free + " bytes. `r`n");
    $message.Body +=    "--------------------------------------------------------------";
    $message.Body +=    "`r`n`r`n";
    $message.Body +=    "This warning will fire when the free space is lower ";
    $message.Body +=    ("than " + $result + " bytes `r`n`r`n");
    $message.Body +=    "Sincerely, `r`n`r`n";
    $message.Body +=    "-- `r`n";
    $message.Body +=    "RunningLow`r`n";


    $smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($email_smtp_host, $email_smtp_port);
    $smtp.EnableSSL = $email_smtp_SSL;
    $smtp.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($email_username, $email_password);
    $mycredentials = ($email_username, $email_password);

$smtp.send($message);
$message.Dispose();

Write-Host ” E-Mail sent!” ;
}
else {
Write-Host (“Drive ” + $d + ” has more than ” + $result + ” bytes free: nothing to do.”);
}
}

richard palmer says:

February 8, 2021 at 20:33

Hi Ryan,
The percentage is fine for a fixed size drive, the problem with my servers is that the drive sizes are different, so how can I check for a percentage like 15% on drives of different sizes.

Thanks

Richard

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Sumukh says:

April 21, 2021 at 09:15

I am getting the below error. Please help me on this.

Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “Failure sending mail.”
At D:\Users\sumukhrs\Desktop\19APR\RunningLow.ps1:76 char:9
+ $smtp.send($message);
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SmtpException

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Rahul says:

May 22, 2021 at 16:14

Please provide complete script with Threshold%

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Riyaz says:

October 3, 2022 at 11:21

Hi,
How can I change $minsize = 2 GB in to Gigabytes , while it shows in bytes in the result which you can find below. It sends mails as bytes, how can we change to GB. Please help me to change it.
Checking drive C …
Drive C has more than 21474836480 bytes free: nothing to do.

Checking drive D …
Drive D has more than 21474836480 bytes free: nothing to do.

Thanks

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jeffher1024 says:

March 14, 2023 at 05:04

.\RunningLow.ps1: The parameter “email_username” is declared in parameter-set “__AllParameterSets” multiple times.

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