Comparing the value of setting and folder size

1

Hello,

I am trying to do a comparison of the results between:

-size of the Archive folder from BES Client machine
Q: sum of (sum of sizes of descendants of it) of folder ((pathname of parent folder of regapp “besclient.exe”) & “__BESData__Global\Archive”)
A: 1521270
T: 0.031 ms

-value for the MaxArchiveSize setting
Q: values of settings “_BESClient_ArchiveManager_MaxArchiveSize” of client
A: 20971520
T: 0.019 ms

But I am geting this error:

Q: (values of settings “_BESClient_ArchiveManager_MaxArchiveSize” of client) > (sum of (sum of sizes of descendants of it) of folder ((pathname of parent folder of regapp “besclient.exe”) & “__BESData__Global\Archive”))
E: A singular expression is required.

What would be the proper way of doing the comparison? I am trying to check machines that would require increasing of their MaxArchiveSize setting value

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

2

Try value of setting to return a singular value. You may also need to cast the result as an integer to be able to perform the comparison.

3

You may also need to cast the value to integer as it would be a string type result. Maybe also worth error trapping to avoid errors on systems that maybe do not have the setting yet?

Q: value of setting "_BESClient_ArchiveManager_MaxArchiveSize" of client 
A: 999
T: 0.167 ms
I: singular string

Q: value of setting "_BESClient_ArchiveManager_MaxArchiveSize" of client as integer | 0
A: 999
T: 0.272 ms
I: singular integer

If the setting doesn’t exist

Q: value of setting "_BESClient_ArchiveManager_MaxArchiveSize" of client 
E: Singular expression refers to nonexistent object.

Q: value of setting "_BESClient_ArchiveManager_MaxArchiveSize" of client as integer | 0
A: 0
T: 0.081 ms
I: singular integer