Remotely Checking Windows: Mapped Network Drives

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Not on XP  - you may have to run the script as the logged-on user in order 
to see the mapped drives.  XP's terminal server'ish behaviour at issue.

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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Robert Reeves wrote:

> All are WindowsXP.
>
> I'll look into WMI32_MappedLogicalDisk. Have you had success with that
> before?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [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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