Monitoring a folder

[plexer]

I've been asked to monitor our public folder and produce a report of files added/modified on a daily basis.

 

i.e run something at 8am and report all the files created/modified the day before.

 

I can use windows search to do this but was looking for somethign that can be scheduled and email a list of recipients the resulting report.

 

Any ideas?

 

Ta.

 

Ben

[gl3nnym]

Not sure if it can be scheduled but I use JAM Software - TreeSize Professional – The Powerful and Flexible Hard Disk Space Manager for monitoring sizes of folders and stuff.

[cromertech]

What server version are you using. You should be able to schedule a windows storage report on any version over 2003 R2. It's part of the file server resource manager

[browolf]

a scheduled recursive vbscript that checks the time stamps of all the files, writes a list of relevant files, then uses blat to mail it to whoever wants it.

[plexer]

It's 2003 R2 looking at the reports available now. Only one I can see that's relevant is the most recently accessed however this won't just give me those that have been created in the last 24 hours

 

Ben

[Guest TheLibrarian]

Take a look at these : XTWare - FileNotify overview or FileNotify2 :: Index.

 

I only ever used version one, but it seemed to do everything I wanted it to.

 

Good luck.

Edited June 24, 2010 by TheLibrarian
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[browolf]

It's 2003 R2 looking at the reports available now. Only one I can see that's relevant is the most recently accessed however this won't just give me those that have been created in the last 24 hours

 

Ben

 

why not? do you have to distinguish between new and modified files?

[SpuffMonkey]

You need System Change Log from Greyware - its a great little prog - usee it here for similar stuff