eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by WindowshareTest

This test periodically connects to remote Windows hosts in the target environment, verifies whether shared folders configured for monitoring exist on those hosts, and also reports whether/not configured users have at least ‘read-only’ access to those folders.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
shareAuthentication Indicates whether this shared folder exists or not. Number The value 100 for this measure indicates that the shared folder exists. If the measure reports the value 0, it indicates that the shared folder does not exist. If so, then the test attempts to create the share using the configured user credentials.
shareAccessible Indicates whether/not the configured user has at least ‘read-only’ access to this shared folder. Number If the shared folder exists (i.e., if the Share Authentication measure reports the value 100), then the value 100 for this measure indicates that the configured user can open the shared folder and read its contents.

If the shared folder does not exist (i.e., if the Share Authentication measure reports the value 0), then the value 100 for this measure indicates that the configured user could create the shared folder.

Likewise, if the shared folder exists (i.e., if the Share Authentication measure reports the value 100), then the value 0 for this measure indicates that the configured user does not have the right to access the folder.

On the other hand, if the shared folder does not exist (i.e., if the Share Authentication measure reports the value 0), then the value 0 for this measure indicates that the configured user could not create the shared folder.