Check_MK: Windows mapped drives

philipp.bieber at gildemeister.com [21.08.2013 08:53]:
> Hi James,
> the problem is (probably) that the check_mk agent is run under the LOCAL
> SYSTEM Account, which has no access to those mapped drives.
> You can either go with Bill's proposal and use legacy checks, or you may
> look into creating a custom SNMP check to get the quotas of your EMC...
> ( -> http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_devel_snmpbased.html )
> 
> We did something similar with our NetApps....

Maybe you can create a batch file that mounts all the shares. Then you
tell your system to mount them as SYSTEM during startup.

We had to do this for one server, and it works fine. A description can
be found on
<http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/44445dc3-0185-407f-b8ad-711f22cd4ec6/windows-nfs-client-reconnect-to-nfs-target-on-reboot>
(it works with non-nfs shares as well).

HTH, Werner

REF: http://lists.mathias-kettner.de/pipermail/checkmk-en/2013-August/010151.html