Error: OSWatcher uses the OS utility Logman to gather its data

Starting Operating System Watcher for Windows (OSWatcher) may return following error message.

c:\oswfw_2_5.1\oswfw_2_5.1>oswatcher 20 120 Error: OSWatcher uses the OS utility Logman to gather its data. Logman can only write its output to a local drive. fOSWatcher therefore can only be run from a local drive.

To solve this issue; open command prompt, where you will initiate OSwatcher, by using “Run as Administrator” option after right clicking on command prompt icon form the start menu – as you see bellow

After that, OSWatcher should run successfully

c:\oswfw_2_5.1\oswfw_2_5.1>oswatcher 20 120 Start of Operating System Watcher for Windows            Processing: OSWThread OSWSystem OSWServer_Work_Queue OSWProcessor OSWProcess OSWLogicalDisk OSWPhysicalDisk OSWPagingFile OSWNetstat OSWMemory OSWCache            Config Dir: c:\oswfw_2_5.1\oswfw_2_5.1 Output File Directory: c$\oswfw_2_5.1\oswfw_2_5.1      Output File Type: csv     Snapshot Interval: 00:00:20 seconds      Runtime Interval: 0120:00:00 (/du 0120:00) hours             Node List: SGPVPSTUNMGR OSWatcher for Windows written by:   Kevin Reardon, Center of Expertise, Oracle Corporation Starting OSWatcher for Windows V2.5.1 on Thu 08/27/2015 Creating Archive Directories: Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWThread Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWSystem Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWServer_Work_Queue Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWProcessor Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWProcess Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWLogicalDisk Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWPhysicalDisk Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWPagingFile Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWNetstat Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWMemory Node SGPVPSTUNMGR created Archive\OSWCache Creating OSWatcher Counters Create Counter: OSWThread  Start Counter: OSWThread Create Counter: OSWSystem  Start Counter: OSWSystem Create Counter: OSWServer_Work_Queue  Start Counter: OSWServer_Work_Queue Create Counter: OSWProcessor  Start Counter: OSWProcessor Create Counter: OSWProcess  Start Counter: OSWProcess Create Counter: OSWLogicalDisk  Start Counter: OSWLogicalDisk Create Counter: OSWPhysicalDisk  Start Counter: OSWPhysicalDisk Create Counter: OSWPagingFile  Start Counter: OSWPagingFile Create Counter: OSWNetstat  Start Counter: OSWNetstat Create Counter: OSWMemory  Start Counter: OSWMemory Create Counter: OSWCache  Start Counter: OSWCache Create OSWCleanup Data Collector Set                      Type                          Status ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OSWCache                                Counter                       Running OSWLogicalDisk                          Counter                       Running OSWMemory                               Counter                       Running OSWNetstat                              Counter                       Running OSWPagingFile                           Counter                       Running OSWPhysicalDisk                         Counter                       Running OSWProcess                              Counter                       Running OSWProcessor                            Counter                       Running OSWServer_Work_Queue                    Counter                       Running OSWSystem                               Counter                       Running OSWThread                               Counter                       Running The command completed successfully. The status of OSWClenanup on SGPVPSTUNMGR is: SGPVPSTUNMGR c:\oswfw_2_5.1\oswfw_2_5.1>