Enterprise Server Strategies for the CIOThe output you'll most often need to save is inventory. The core tenet of troubleshooting is that, if you don't know what healthy looks like you can't identify sick. Assuming that you've got the scripts, you can use file system objects to store information about any of the following:
- Drive inventory, including logical disk size, remaining free space and volume name
- The services that are normally running on a particular computer, so you can check against this list when a remote computer is acting up
- The printers that are installed on a particular computer
Another reason to collect data is for future planning. As one reader wrote in, he'd already figured out how to get the size of user home directories. What he wanted to know was how to preserve this information so he could find the average size of directories and set up a reasonable quota system. Since not all users had home directories, just taking an average of the user folder wouldn't provide an accurate picture.
Set dirFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set dirFolder = dirFSO.GetFolder("\\FOLDER\E$\users")
Set colSubfolders = dirFolder.Subfolders
For Each dirSubfolder in colSubfolders
oFileTxt.WriteLine (dirSubfolder.Name, dirSubfolder.Size/1000000)
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Introduction- Writing output to a file
- Using saved output
- Summary
Read all of Christa's scripting columns:
April 2005: Beginner's
guide to scripting
May 2005: It's
time to increase your scripting expertise
June 2005: Connect
users to network resources
July 2005: More
on connecting to network resources
August 2005: Find
objects with Windows Scripting Host
September 2005: Windows
Script Host arguments
October 2005: Scripting
School: Turning the environment with WshShell
November 2005: Scripting
School: Connect scripts to remote computers
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
When Christa Anderson began working with Windows Server operating systems in 1992, she became
increasingly interested in finding more efficient and flexible ways of performing routine tasks.
Christa has written extensively about administrative scripting and taught technical sessions on the
subject at conferences such as Comdex and CeBIT, helping people who had never done any scripting to
write their own scripts in half a day. In addition to her interest in scripting Windows management,
Christa is an authority on server-based computing and the program manager for Terminal Services
licensing in Longhorn. If you have a scripting question for Christa, please e-mail her at scripting@SearchWinSystems.com.
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