File Count Oddity...

Hey All,

I'm attempting to create a monitor template to count the number of files in a folder. Should be a simple thing. I duplicated the existing File Count template that comes with APM and started to put in my parameters.. The files I want to check are on a VM running XP... it's a PDF Rendering machine for one of our quality apps. The files are located on drive on this machine. I'm using credentials with Domain Admin rights...

If I put in my path to the files (d:\blah\blah\blah pdf) I get an error back that the folder doesn't exist. I can check any folder on C: drive, but nothing on . It doesn't appear to be a permissions issue, as that account can navigate to those files with no problems normally... I can even shorten the search path to just \ pdf and I still get "Folder Not Found"...

It's almost like the drive isn't really called though that sounds crazy... any ideas?

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josh.clark

The script will run on the Orion server. When you specify "d:\blah" that is relative to the Orion Sevrer - you are counting the files in that directory on the Orion Sever, not your target server.

You should specify the directory using UNC paths. You can use the variable ${IP} to represent the target machine's address. So, try a path like this:

\\${IP}\d$\blah

This assumes you have the admin share for that drive (d$). You could also just share the specific folder and point to it directly (\\${IP}\MyPDFs)

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josh.clark

The script will run on the Orion server. When you specify "d:\blah" that is relative to the Orion Sevrer - you are counting the files in that directory on the Orion Sever, not your target server.

You should specify the directory using UNC paths. You can use the variable ${IP} to represent the target machine's address. So, try a path like this:

\\${IP}\d$\blah

This assumes you have the admin share for that drive (d$). You could also just share the specific folder and point to it directly (\\${IP}\MyPDFs)