Windows 2003 and mount points...disk space

[Guest]

Now that we've moved to Win2K3, we are utilizing the new feature of mount points; however, Hyena currently does not seem to recognize these as disks and will not report Disk Space for these drives.

Are there any plans in the future to support this?

[cmccullough]

Re: Windows 2003 and mount points...disk space

At this time we have no plans of supporting this. You may want to see if there is a WMI class that can be used to get this information. V6.0 of Hyena will be releasing soon and it has WMI reporting capabilities.

[Guest]

Re: Windows 2003 and mount points...disk space

Thanx for the info!

[Guest]

Re: Windows 2003 and mount points...disk space

Hyena would be more useful if the "Disk Space" folder showed the space on all drives.

Suppose you have a server set up with an "R:" volume (5 GB) with additional volumes mounted as "R:\MB1Logs" (20 GB) and "R:\MB1DB" (80 GB). This is becoming common practice for clustered Exchange servers on Windows Server 2003. The Disk Space listing only shows an R: drive with 5 GB and you miss seeing the volumes where you should be worried about running out of space.

The following script will list the space from WMI. Is there any way that something similar can be used for disk space under the server object?


Message = ""
For each Volume in GetObject("Winmgmts:").InstancesOf ("Win32_Volume")
FreeSpace = CDbl("0" & Volume.FreeSpace) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024
Capacity = CDbl("0" & Volume.Capacity) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024
If Capacity <> 0 Then
Message = Message & Volume.Name & vbTab & volume.FileSystem & vbCrLf & _
vbTab & vbTab & "Free space: " & vbTab & FormatNumber(FreeSpace, 2) & " GB" & vbCrLf & _
vbTab & vbTab & "Capacity: " & vbTab & FormatNumber(Capacity, 2) & " GB" & vbCrLf
End If
Next
WScript.Echo Message

[kstanush]

Re: Windows 2003 and mount points...disk space

The disk space functions that Hyena uses, developed by Microsoft, are the primary reason behind this limitation.

But Hyena now fully supports WMI, so you can easily create a query similar to this in Hyena, provided that you have the Enterprise Edition. The only thing that you can't do is show percentages and scale the value down as your script does. Hyena just shows the raw WMI data.

Let us know if you need help in configuring a WMI query to do this.

[Guest]

Re: Windows 2003 and mount points...disk space

How do we request something like this for version 6.x or 7?

[kstanush]

Re: Windows 2003 and mount points...disk space

Request what ? I don't think that mount points support remote querying of available disk space, and they don't fit in with the disk functions that we have now.