Software to manage file server changes

[EllaMonroe]

Hi, I have recently been given the task to seek a software that would run in the win32 enviroment that could monitor file servers for any recent large modifications. For example, we have some huge RAID drives 500GB+ that are shared by all types of employees within our organization.
Now, the problem we have sometimes is that some users with access to these drives have been known to upload huge files and we as the IT team would like to be notified of any major changes to the drives from day to day.

So basically if someone uploads 20GB in an evening, in the morning I would like to be alerted of such an event and have the IP, computer name ect.. of the person who is responsible.

The software might be configurable to our specific needs as far as the types of alarm and thresholds perhaps.

Back in the day, there was a command on my old 486 something like Xcopy in DoS was able to provide the type of information I am looking for, only I'd imagine how complex it has gotten from there.

Any ideas, references and or links would be appreciated....

Thank you!

 

[phannah]

Well, if you use SNMP for network monitoring, assuming the storage device supports SNMP, or is attached to a server that uses SNMP, you can easily monitor disk usage, and set thresholds to be alerted on.

 

[EllaMonroe]

Ok that is great. My knowledge of SNMP is basic at that. I understand the basic priciples but might you or anyone else have some documentation or specific SNMP monitoring applications that can set such thresholds?

thank you

 

[phannah]

Well, you can install the SNMP and SNMP Trap services from Add/Remove Windows Components under Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel on the Fileserver in question (You mentioend it was Win32). You'll need to configure both - you can do so through Services - just locate each. For SNMP you'll need to specify a community and permissions. Once you are done with this, you can configure the SNMP Trap service to send alerts to the IP Address of the machine in which you'll be using to monitor your network.

When you've got that part completed, you'll want to get your hands on a Network Monitoring System - to get started very quickly, you can demo What's Up, which is available at

http://www.ipswitch.com.

I don't know of a site for an SNMP starter guide, but this should be enough information to get you started.

 

[EllaMonroe]

Great thank you. But how about like an all in one applicatio n that can simply monitor the drive and alert us of certain changes... of all the applications on win 2000+ enviroemnt I am sure there is some out there....


Any other advices?? thank you!