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venkat
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2 months ago

Monitoring the top utilisation folders for windows servers in C drvie

Hi All, We are looking for a possiblity to Monitor the folders in C drive and give us which are utilizing more space  Is there any way we can do this by using custom Datasource will the WMI access ...
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andrewj-t
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2 months ago

I had a similiar situation where I wanted to monitor the size of certain folders on a central windows file server. What I ended up doing was enabling the FSRM role on the server, and created soft quotas on the folders I wanted to track. There is a Community LogicModule tagged with FSRM that can track these via WMI.

The main advantage of using FSRM, is that since the FSRM service tracks the space, you wouldnt need to recursively calculate the size of each folder when you wanted to poll it.

Probably not something you would want to do for every folder on the server, but could be useful if there are specific ones you are interested in tracking.