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Zlatko
Asked: 2012-09-20 23:13:59 +0800 CST

How to monitor the size of files in Windows folder?

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What are some of good ways to automatically monitor the size of files in a directory and send warning email if they get close to a certain limit on a Windows server?

I have a Progress DB installation to keep in check, and last week we hit some problems. Apparently, the size of extents has hit 2GB - and Progress won't work past that - we needed to open a new extent.

I'm coming from a Linux environment, so I don't know what are the usual to monitor this in a Windows environment (or monitoring tools whatsoever).

I prefer some generic solution, as I have a mixed environment (Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2).

Thanks in advance for all usable alternative answers.

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    @JohnGardeniers is completely right in his comment, and though I don't have enough experience with Progress databases to help, in that regard, I've got a few things up my sleeve you could try.

    Oh, and just FYI, your life will be much easier if you can replace/ignore/accidentally destroy your Windows 2000 servers, as a lot of products and solutions that work with Server 2008 and above simply will not work on Windows 2000. Having said that

    1. SNMP.

      • If you have a nice, powerful SNMP monitoring system (Nagios/SolarWinds/Open Manage/etc), you can use it to do this for you, complete with automatic email and/or SMS alerting.

    2. Buy a product to do so for you.

      • Technically, get the company to buy something for you, but you can pick up a lot of decent apps for this for under $100, so when my company's too cheap to do so, I'll often just buy one out of pocket and have a license for me, that I run off a PC or server at my home.

    3. Script something, like in this StackOverflow thread.

      • This might even work for both the Windows 2000 machines and the Server 2008 R2 machines, since it's a batch file/DOS script.

    4. Automate use of the reporting tools in the File Services Role to get regular reports and handle things manually.

      • Pretty sure this will only be an option on Server 2008 R2, but better than nothing.
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  2. Another way to look into this problem is, if you have windows 2008 then use power shell and call WMI with domain administrator permission and fetch the information you require and configure mail if size goes out of limit. You can also centrally manage the which servers to look into.

    Use Task Schedule to set an interval for the script

    Basic google search gave me following link. PowerShell WMI

    Hope this will solve your issue.

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