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The DiskMonitor (DSM) program installs as a
service under Windows. It allows you to specify which
drives you want to monitor and where you want to send alerts when a
space free space threshold has been exceeded.
DSM enables network administrators to
monitor local and networked disks, receive custom e-mails alerts,
graphically view usage history, recurs entire disks to determine
directory usage, and generate reports.
DiskMonitor uses a Windows Service to
poll disk usage. The service can send warning and critical e-mail
alerts as well as save usage information for graphical review.
Many disks can be configured at once
or each disk configured separately.
All directories can be recursed
enabling network administrators to determine which directories are
using the most space and which directories have large numbers of
files.
When the network administrator needs
to disable alerting, all alerting can be disabled and later
e-enabled with a single click of the mouse.
Two different emails can be sent out
when disk usage runs low. One email can be sent to a desktop with
detailed information while another email can be sent to a hand held
device. Both email subjects are configurable and hand held device
email subjects can be fully configured.
The disk usage charts can be fully
configured and emailed to other users from within the application.
Feature Summary
- Monitors network and local disks
- Sends custom e-mails alerts
- Generates configurable charts
that show off disk usage over time
- Generates comma separated
reports of disk and directory usage
- Supports SMTP and
username/password authentication
- Monitor intervals can be
configured for each disk
- Runs on Windows XP/2000/NT
Screen Shots
The user interface has three views.
There is a tree view that displays all local drives and monitored
shares. To the right is a list view that displays detailed information
about the drive or share. Lastly, there is a log view that displays
messages generated by the DiskMonitor service.
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Another shot shows the folder
information for a selected network share. The total size and file
count is included and optionally sorted by size. Also notice the log
view has been hidden.
 
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This shot shows the chart dialog.
Virtually all aspects of the chart can be modified and saved for later
viewing. This functionality enables easy viewing of multiple formats.
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When configuring an alert, important
information regarding the drive or share is included. Email
notifications can be generated when free space drops below a
percentage or actual gigabytes, megabytes, kilobytes, or bytes free.
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