Anyone testing Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy?

[C. Bensend]

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:17 PM, C. Bensend <benny at bennyvision.com> wrote:
>>
>>   Looking at the vssadmin.exe command on the Windows server, I see
>> I can:
>>
>>
>> vssadmin List Shadows
>>
>>
>>   And it prints out a listing of the existing shadow copies.
>> However, without awk and grep (and no, I cannot install cygwin or
>> anything like that), I don't have a clue how to process it.
>
> you'll have to parse the output of that command with the tools at
> hand: vbscript or powershell, even and oldfashined bat file. Write
> your own plugin, it is not that hard. Once you have the script, you
> have it executed by nrpe (nsclient++ has an nrpe client).

Just an FYI, after I spent an hour or two learning VBscript and
writing a shell wrapper to parse the output, I found:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/%2A-Plugin-Packages/Nagios-Plugin-Collection/details

which includes a test for Shadow Copies.  Sigh.  Oh well, good
learning experience.  :)

Benny


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