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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