I'm trying to monitor the number of files in a networked folder that all of my nodes access. I can't seem to get this to work. I'm getting a "Loading your settings failed. (Access is denied.)" error. It's inheriting my credentials from the node.
Components, which monitor file system need permissions to access them. Try to validate, if the user used to monitor the node has access to the directory has read permissions to the monitored directory. It usually is, but doesn't have to be. If the directory permissions are OK, than try to have a look at "CIM_DataFile" class (namespace) permissions in WMI. This probe uses WMI to read the data remotely, so it needs acces to the classes. To test this scenario, try to run following query from WbemTest too, from powershell or another WMI tool: "SELECT FileSize FROM CIM_DataFile WHERE Path LIKE 'FullPathToMonitoredDirectory'" (replace the FullPathToMonitoredDirectory with required path in your system).
Are you monitoring the server where that share exists? Is it a Windows server or a NAS? SAM's file and folder monitors utilize WMI so the server that is sharing the files must be a managed Windows node in Orion. It is not possible to monitor a share remotely from a server that simply has this as a mapped drive.
