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Custom Inventory for Mounted Volumes

Updated: 09 Oct 2009
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We have an extensive SAN environment at my company, and found that the out-of-the-box Inventory Solution tasks are unable to capture NTFS mounted disk volumes we use on some of our larger file shares (i.e. a physical drive D:\, with an additional physical volume mounted to D:\Users, for example).  So we came up with our own.  

To implement this, unzip the .XML and .INI file to your Inventory Solution directory (\\NSServer\NSCap\Bin\Win32\X86\Inventory Solution\).  Then edit the Inventory Solution default package at Resources > Resources > Defaults > Package.  Add a new "Program" with the following command line:

AexInvSoln.exe /hidden /s #IS-SRV-HwVolumes.ini
Success Codes: 0
Failure codes: (blank)
Disk space: 0
Set it to:
Estimated Run time: 1 minute
Terminate after: 10 minutes
Starting window: Normal
Run with rights: System Account
Program can run: Whether or not a user is logged on
No network connection required.

Then create a new Inventory task which executes this custom Inventory Program.  You will get in your NS database (in the "Default Folder") a new dataclass: AeX HW Disk Volumes