Montior windows UNC disk path

I have a windows server that copies work files for backup to a NetApp UNC path. I would like to be able to monitor the space available on the target as well as verifying that it can be accessed. I have tried the following WMI query which is valid in the utility "wbemtest" but it fails when used in Orion APM:

SELECT FreeSpace FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE ProviderName="\\\\na\\logs_bkp1$"

I found in the MSDN library at:: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394084%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

that this is returning a value of data type uinit64 - could that be an issue? If so, is there a way to wrap the WMI query above to convert it?

Alternatively, does anyone have any ideas on monitoring UNC paths from a WinOS server? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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taylorfc

You could monitors the space usage usage on the netapp itself. Here's a UnDP poller that I created that would help you out:

aLTeReGo

Did you try that WMI query using wbemtest remotely from the Orion server? I believe that query only works locally on the server when that UNC path is being used as a mapped drive in the same user context that established the mount. I could however be mistaken. If this is a 64bit counter have you tried changing the polling method in SAM for this application template to use 64bit?

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You can certainly monitor the accessibility of a UNC path using any of the file or directory monitors in SAM, but if you want to monitor it's accessibility from a remote machine this would entail writing a custom PowerShell script.