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disk monitoring with mount points

gixer1997

Is there anyway that orion will monitor the mount points on a windows disk? Say I have a 80gb partition and create a mount point thats 80gb and mount it to the 80gb partition. Solar winds doesn't show the space from the mount point. Is this possible?

thanks

Dennis

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jj4real

Can this be done?

aquaphobia

It looks to be possible using an APM WMI counter.

Yann

There is an alternative WMI class than the Quota one to monitor the client side of mounted volumes. I discovered that after I posted in the above link.

This WMI Class is called Win32_LogicalDisk:

HTH,

Yann

Ohmus

That WMI class will work for mapped drives. What the original poseter (and now me) are asking is, Can Orion NPM/APM monitor a Mount Point.

In other words, you have a drive 'M' and you create one or more mount points to another disk(s) that will show up as a folder under 'M'.

We are looking at doing this to limit the number of drive letters on a server, but still separate physical disk access.

Thanks

josh.clark

Will Win32_Volume work for you?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394515(VS.85).aspx

Ohmus

Yes. I was just testing with that class, and I'm trying to figure out how to use the DeviceID property to get the drive letter and folder from Win32_MountPoint class.

I'm still learning my way using WQL and/or VBS with APM, so all I have so far is an APM that pulls one of the mount points from a server that has two mount points under one drive letter.

I'm guessing that a VB script that pulls all of the mount points may be the only way to do it.

If possible, I'd like to build an APM that is generic, so we can apply it to any server with mount points.

I'd also like to be able to convert the data to %Free so it matches with our normal disk space monitors in NPM.

Thanks

Ohmus

Ahhh, forget the path issue, just noticed the 'Caption' property.

Ohmus

I have an infant script at this point. I just need help adapting this for APM use.

The ugly beginnings:

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
"SELECT * FROM Win32_Volume where DriveLetter IS NULL",,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
intPerFree = round (objItem.FreeSpace / objItem.Capacity * 100)
Wscript.Echo " Mount Point " & objItem.Caption & " has " & intPerFree & "% Free"
Next

Thanks

FormerMember

Has this matured into a working template or script yet????

Yann

I have recently seen a customer monitoring the below WMI Class and its FreeMegaBytes field using the Windows Performance Counters Monitors. Mounted Drives (even mounted on path) are shown there.

Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394261(VS.85).aspx

A WQL Query such as:

SELECT FreeMegaBytes FROM Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk WHERE Name = 'C:\\MountedPath'

should make it.

HTH,

Yann