How do you monitor directy sizes

[luketrot]

How can I monitor the size of a Windows 2003 folder?

[luketrot]

Has anyone used Zabbix to monitor a directory size? This seems like a common task.

[RandySpinaGE]

Load unix like environment on windows (I would use cygwin)..
this will give you commands like du and awk (among others)

then I created a .bat file and put this line in c:\zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf

UserParamter=lukes_dir,c:\cygwin\forluke.bat

stopped the windows agent...removed....installed....started
(probably didnt have to remove... the start probably reads the config file)

tested in windows
tested on zabbix_server (linux) system

Thats ONE way

Here are 2 files conatining DOS CMD window and Linux "get" window

[Calimero]

If you don't want to install cygwin, you can use Windows Script Host.

Example:

Create a text file : c:\folder_size.vbs
Paste:


Option Explicit
Dim objFSO, objFolder
Set objFSO = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(WScript.Arguments(0))
WScript.StdOut.Write objFolder.Size
Set objFolder = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
WScript.Quit(0)


Edit you agent configuration file:

UserParameter=folder_size_tmp,cscript c:\folder_size.vbs //Nologo d:\tmp
UserParameter=folder_size_windows,cscript c:\folder_size.vbs //Nologo c:\windows
UserParameter=folder_size[*],cscript c:\folder_size.vbs //Nologo $1


NB: I didn't manage to get the last line working... It fails miserably. That's why I have two "fixed" folder_size_XXX parameters.

You can then add folder_size_tmp to monitored items on host.

That's another way.

[den_crane]

UserParameter=folder_size[*],cscript c:\folder_size.vbs //Nologo $1

wildcards not supported in windows agent.

[Calimero]

OK. Thanks for the info. At least I won't spend another hour trying to find out how it works.

[navtek007]

do you have any problems with time outs?

i have used a similar script and it works from from command prompt however via zabbix i get a timeout error when the folder size is quite large (>10-15G)

[Calimero]

Depending on the number of files (size doesn't matter ) it can take quite some time as it's a recursive process.
Once you've run the script windows will cache as much info as possible so that next time the script lists recursively files, most info will be read from cache... But cache expires/is removed (depending on how much RAM you have, I guess as I'm no windows expert)...

You can increase the Timeout value in your zabbix agent conf file, but I guess you increase it too much (< 5 ou < 10sec maybe).

[webgordy]

How can I monitor the size of a Windows 2003 folder?

Once the script is in place, how do you create the item in the GUI?
Thanks,

[thomson]

Folder size

Sorry to bring this old thread to life, but is there any news about monitoring folders? I need to monitoring some windows folders.

\\thomson

[ehermouet]

Hi,

tks for this script but it's no work for me :'(

Received value [Fodler does not exist] is not suitable for value type [Numeric (unsigned)] and data type [Decimal]

not supported... folder exist and work when it is only him...

edit: i think it's because my folder is too big (200gb)... how i can correct that ?