Local Folder

Local Folder driver provides monitoring for folders located on the AggreGate server.

Local Folder driver checks the existence of the folder, acquire folder attributes, load and inspect folder contents (files and subfolders). Contents of a folder can be analyzed recursively (including subfolders) or non-recursively. Besides that, the items to be processed can be filtered using wildcard or regular expression. This can be configured using the following properties:

Field Name	Field Description
Path	Specifies folder location, i.e. full path.
Read Contents	Enables/disables reading of folder contents.
Recursive	If disabled, only contents of the specified folder will be analyzed. Otherwise, all its subfolders will be processed recursively.
Files To Include	Specifies filter for folder items. The options are to process all files and folders, or to select only those satisfying specified regular or wildcard expression.

Variable Name

Variable Description

Comments

Folder Attributes

attributes

Contains the following attributes:

•	Last Modification Time (modificationTime)

•	Size, i.e. total size of all files selected according to Recursive and Files To Include options (size)

•	File count, i.e. total number of files selected according to Recursive and Files To Include options (fileCount)

Folder Contents

contents

List of folder items (files and subfolders) with the following fields:

•

Type

•	Relative Path

•

Size

Local Folder Devices are synchronized with AggreGate Server like any other Device. During synchronization, the attributes and contents of the folder are obtained.

If all I/O operations with the folder are successfully finished, the local folder Device is deemed "online".

If no folder exists at the path specified, or any error was encountered while accessing the folder, Local Folder Device is considered "offline".

If Local Folder is "offline", folder attributes and contents can still be read and analyzed by system facilities. They will, however, have values obtained when the folder was accessed successfully for the last time.