disk‑acquisition Audit

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Collects the contents of a disk drive from Windows host endpoints.

This audit was formerly known as the w32disk-acquisition audit.

This audit cannot be imported into a data acquisition script. See Audits That Cannot Be Imported on page 1.

Supported Platforms

Windows

Input Parameters

The following input parameters are available for this audit.

Path

Details

Values

Description

Platform

Windows

Windows environments

Format

String

Valid values are a string of text.

Required?

yes

This parameter is required.

Repeatable?

no

This parameter can be specified only once per audit request. It cannot be repeated.

Valid Values

Specify the global path of the symbolic link for the disk or volume from which you want to acquire data. The trailing back-slash is optional.

Filename

Details

Values

Description

Platform

Windows

Windows environments

Format

String

Valid values are a string of text.

Required?

yes

This parameter is required.

Repeatable?

no

This parameter can be specified only once per audit request. It cannot be repeated.

Valid Values

Specify the name of the file for which you want to acquire data.

offset

Details

Values

Description

Platform

Windows

Windows environments

Format

Numeric

Valid values are numeric.

Required?

no

This parameter is not required.

Repeatable?

no

This parameter can be specified only once per audit request. It cannot be repeated.

Valid Values

Specify the offset, in bytes, from the beginning of the disk from which you want to acquire data.

size

Details

Values

Description

Platform

Windows

Windows environments

Format

ByteSize

Valid values are specified in bytes.

Required?

no

This parameter is not required.

Repeatable?

no

This parameter can be specified only once per audit request. It cannot be repeated.

Valid Values

Specify the size of the data acquisition, in bytes.

Prevent Hibernation

Details

Values

Description

Platform

Windows

Windows environments

Format

Bool

Valid values are Boolean values.

Required?

no

This parameter is not required.

Repeatable?

no

This parameter can be specified only once per audit request. It cannot be repeated.

Valid Values

Use Boolean values to indicate whether to prevent the host endpoint from entering hibernation while this audit is executed.