Remotely Checking Windows: Mapped Network Drives

[Robert Reeves]

All are WindowsXP. 

I'll look into WMI32_MappedLogicalDisk. Have you had success with that
before?

Thanks!

Robert

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Subhendu
Ghosh
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:03 AM
To: Robert Reeves
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Remotely Checking Windows: Mapped Network
Drives

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Robert Reeves wrote:

> I have several windows servers that use mapped network drives. At 
> times, these drives become unavailable and halt services. I would like

> to be able to monitor these drives.
>
> I have both NRPE_NT and nsclient running on the Windows boxes. Both 
> responses are not working for me:
>
> NRPE
> Status: OK
> Status Information: DEBUG : 12/21/05 08:59:15: GetDiskFreeSpaceEx() 
> returned an error
>
> Nsclient:
> Status: UNKNOWN
> Status Information: Free disk space : Invalid drive
>
> I have attempted to run both services as the SYSTEM account and as a 
> valid domain user. Both result in the same response.
>
> There is an earlier thread that suggests granting the SYSTEM user 
> permissions to the share. However, due to some uniqueness with how we 
> set up the mapped network drives, I am unable to change the 
> permissions on the shares. There are from a Linux box running Samba.
>
> Does anybody have a solution for this? I simply need to make sure the 
> drives are accessible from the Windows server, so I'm willing to go in

> a different location instead of checking free space left.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>

server os - win2k or win2k3?

Have you tried using NRPE_NT with a script that uses the
WMI32_MappedLogicalDisk to enumerate mapped disks?


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