Windows NT - File system monitoring

Question

Hi there. How can i monitor windows nt file system (free space) ?? It appears to not be supported. Thanks!!!

DELL-Thomas B · Accepted Answer

Our data collector can't run on NT, so if you wanted to do this it would have to be remote via mounting the drives on a remote system and monitoring them from there or running a schedule script on the NT box that dumps the information somewhere on the network we could then parse and read through. Either way it is going to be a bit of work with the script agent.

A good premise for script agents can be found here. http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/performance-monitoring/foglight-administrators/w/admins-wiki/6136.custom-agents-script-agent-data-modeling-and-units

DELL-Jason Ha · Answer

Are you referring to Windows NT (the 15+ year old operating system), or Windows in general? If Windows 2000+, you can use the Infrastructure (Windows_System) agent to monitor this out of the box. If you are referring to 'Windows NT', the only way to monitor this would be through custom scripting.

arisi-visa.com. · Answer

Hi Jason. Yes, the 15+ year old operating system. Please, tell me something about this custom scripting. I need this with a bit of an urgency.

DELL-Thomas B · Answer

It will only read local drives, but you could use a script agent at that point to read the mounts.  The data is there to be grabbed on a mounted drive, just not ootb.

arisi-visa.com. · Answer

So, if i mount a windows NT disk (share) on a windows 2008 box, the OSCartridge-Agent-Windows2008-5_5_4 will read this mounted file systems? I thought it only read local file systems.

arisi-visa.com. · Answer

How can i enable/use the script agent? Is installed with fglam? It would be great just a tiny example. * Just send the free space (MB) of one mount disk to the management server.

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