Local Folder Monitoring

Local folder monitoring is provided by Local Folder Driver. It allows to monitor folders located on the server by providing the options to:

  • check the existence of the folder at the specified path on the server.

  • acquire folder attributes, namely:

    • last modification time.

    • file count.

    • size, i.e. total size of files in the folder (all files of filtered set of them).

  • load and inspect folder contents (files and subfolders).

Contents of a folder can be analyzed recursively (including subfolders) or non-recursively. Besides that, the items to be processed can be filtered using wildcard or regular expression.

Local Folder monitoring can be a helpful and effective tool for a number of network managements tasks, such as:

  • Tracking presence or absence of a particular folder.

  • Monitoring availability of a service or an application by tracking last modification time and/or other attributes of a specific folder.

  • Remotely analyzing application output or application activity by inspecting folder contents.

  • Checking total size of application log files and warning about necessity to backup them.

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