Create/run Report on specific folder size on machines?

Question

Done some searching but can't seem to get a suitable solution for this. Essentially I want to run a report which will tall the the total size of a folder, if it exists, on all my machine. "C:\myprograms\tax". It's not in the user context which
should make this somewhat easier?
Does anyone know any relatively straightforward ways of getting a report on this?
Thanks!

Answer 1

ok; here's what I did in my lab (and it worked for me):
1. Create a new ConfigItem -- check the box about "This Configuration item contains application settings".  For this example, I'm going to name it "InetPub Folder Size"
2. Detection methods, use a custom script, powershell
   if (Test-Path c:\inetpub) {write-host exists}
3.  Setting, New, Script, String data type, add script of Powershell.  I know your script appended "MB"; but I think from the standpoint of what I'd do with the data (potentially) once I get a report out, I'd want it to be just a raw number,
so if I had to do stuff with that number in sql or excel, I don't have to strip out the MB part.  You'll know it's MB, right?
if (Test-Path c:\inetpub) {
$colItems = (Get-ChildItem c:\inetpub -recurse | Measure-Object -property length -sum)
$result = [int]($colItems.sum / 1MB)
write-host $result
4.  Compliance Rules; Value EQUALS the phrase  "Report Any Value" 
Since it will never ever return that result, everything will be a non-compliant (which is what we want)
5. Supported Platforms: select all or just select the OS' you care about.
6.  Create a baseline (name doesn't matter), add this CI to it.  after you add it, make sure you change Purpose from "Required" to "Optional".
7. Deploy the Baseline on a (for example) daily re-run schedule to a collection--probably just a test box for now.
8. Bunch of policy refreshes, and interactively run the baseline.  in the control panel applet, it SHOULD say it's non-compliant.  Locally check the report there, see what the results are (just so you see it working).
9. in SQL Management Studio (might take a few minutes for the non-compliant value to show up from the client through your MP into your database, i.e., wait 15-20 min maybe), run this against your CM_ database:
select
  s1.netbios_name0,
  ci.displayname,
  rooles.RuleName,
  perclientdetails.DiscoveredValue
from
v_localizedciproperties ci
join vDCMDeploymentNonCompliantRuleDetailsPerClientMachine perclientDetails
 on perclientdetails.ci_id=ci.ci_id
join v_CIRules rooles on rooles.rule_id=perclientdetails.rule_id
join v_r_system s1 on s1.ResourceID=perclientDetails.ItemKey
where
  ci.displayname = 'InetPub Folder Size'
 and
 ci.localeid = 1033
order by s1.Netbios_Name0
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