Right now we're giving serious consideration to using folder mount-points in Windows in order to solve a specific storage problem. The one thing that make me go, "oh, please, no," is the fact that the disk-space monitoring script I've been using for years, the one that also monitors NetWare, Windows and ESX, can't handle folder-mounts. Why? Because the Windows SNMP agent doesn't give any information about folder-mounts, just drive-letter mounts.
SNMP was very nice since I didn't have to use Windows to get the information I needed. However, Microsoft hasn't been really paying attention to SNMP in recent versions so I am not at all surprised to learn that this hasn't been put in place. Or if it is, they're using a MIB I don't know about.
I suspect I'll have to carve my script up in twain, into Windows and non-Windows variants. That way I can continue to keep data in this particular database (with data that goes back to 2004!).
But still, the core engineering of this guy was done back in 2001, with efforts later on to shim in Windows and ESX support. I looked into Linux a couple years ago and determined that I could add support for that pretty simply, but never did as we didn't have a call for it yet. 9 years is a long life for a script like this. I suppose it's time.
Or maybe we can not use folder-mounts.
SNMP was very nice since I didn't have to use Windows to get the information I needed. However, Microsoft hasn't been really paying attention to SNMP in recent versions so I am not at all surprised to learn that this hasn't been put in place. Or if it is, they're using a MIB I don't know about.
I suspect I'll have to carve my script up in twain, into Windows and non-Windows variants. That way I can continue to keep data in this particular database (with data that goes back to 2004!).
But still, the core engineering of this guy was done back in 2001, with efforts later on to shim in Windows and ESX support. I looked into Linux a couple years ago and determined that I could add support for that pretty simply, but never did as we didn't have a call for it yet. 9 years is a long life for a script like this. I suppose it's time.
Or maybe we can not use folder-mounts.
Can you rig a script to an OID in Windows? I think it can be done in *nix side of things. Maybe SNMP informant can help you.
Tom
It absolutely is possible in Linux, in fact that's how I shimmed in my ESX support for the script. Windows is not as forgiving, unfortunately. I'll have to resort to 3rd party SNMP agents to get what I want, or give up on SNMP and go WMI.