Monitor hard drives

[Fabit]

I'm trying to monitor a network hard drive I need to turn on auditing does someone know how to?

Thank you,

Greatly Appreciate it,

 

[Sybje]

Depends what you want to know about the hard disk...

With performance monitor, you can monitor things, such as Disk I/O...
Performance monitoring has to be done at the server.

 

[Fabit]

I want to see what users are logged on and doing in the harddisk?

 

[Sybje]

In the Advanced Security Options, you can configure auditing...

You have to specify the user group, you want to audit... After that, you can specify in detail what you want to audit, like in setting NTFS permissions on a file or folder.

The audit will then be in the Eventlog.

I don't know if you will be happy with that.

 

[Fabit]

where is the advancded security settings i cant find it?

 

[Sybje]

Open Windows Explorer...

Go to the harddisk you want to audit...

Right click --> Properties
Tab Security... Bottom right you have an option Advanced...

If you have opened the advanced settings, the second tab is Audit.

 

[Fabit]

from here do I add the users or groups that I want to audit?

 

[Sybje]

Yes. If you want to audit all users, you can just put the local group Users in it... If you want to be more specific in your audit, you can put a domain group in this list...