Add data to report not in default SW schema

QUESTION FOR SAM - SERVER AND APPLICATION MONITOR - REPORT SECTION

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We have a bunch of MS Exchange servers out there configured as DAGs (Database Availability Groups, i.e. clusters).

Each node (server) has a large number of drives configured as volumes under a "mount point" and "folder". These volumes do not have a drive letter assigned.

Solarwinds SAM appears to detect only volumes with a drive letter (F:,G:, etc.). BTW I'm using SAM 6.6.1. Servers are Windows 2008 R2.

My customer currently runs a Powershell script which creates a report listing all of the volumes in all of the Exchange servers with volume size, space used, space available.

We would like to transition this to a Solarwinds console or report - people really like the Solarwinds interface.

However...

Solarwinds does not natively detect volumes on a mount point with no drive letter. Powershell get-wmiobject referencing the win32_volume object does return these drives.

All of the Exchange servers in question using Agent version 2.x for polling.

I was thinking about running the powershell script as a component monitor. However, a component monitor only returns a limited number of discrete values, not a long list of servers / volumes / values.

Also perhaps create a Solarwinds report. But... not sure how to get those extra volumes into the 'Volumes' table in the Solarwinds database for report access.

Please let me know if any ideas on how to get Solarwinds to see and track these volumes with no drive letters. Thanks much.

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robert777

Thinking this through perhaps I need to refine the original question / issue:

SOLARWINDS DOES NOT APPEAR TO SEE MOUNTED VOLUMES ON WINDOWS SERVERS THAT DO NOT HAVE A DRIVE LETTER ASSOCIATED WITH THEM.

However, WMI query against the server using win32_volume class does reveal these drives.

Can someone offer ideas on how to get Solarwinds to see these drives? Using SAM 6.61, all servers agent polling. Thanks.

jvb

Mount points should show up regardless of having a drive letter assigned.

If you are clicking on List Resources and the mount points are not showing up I would suggest opening a ticket with support to investigate.

robert777

Thank you. Yes, I think that the problem has been solved.

Issue: these Exchange hosts were originally set up for SNMP polling. As part of that disk volumes available were selected in the Inventory page. It appears that mounted disks with no drive letter are not discovered when using SNMP polling.

A few months ago we upgraded to agent-based polling. However... being fairly new to Solarwinds I was looking at a "cached" Inventory view, from before the upgrade to agent polling.

Once I forced a re-discovery with agent polling then the mounted drives with no drive letter showed up in the Inventory.

All good now. Cheers.