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Local folder monitoring is provided by Local Folder Driver. It allows to monitor folders located on the server by providing the options to:
| • | check the existence of the folder at the specified path on the server |
| • | acquire folder attributes, namely: |
| o | size, i.e. total size of files in the folder (all files of filtered set of them) |
| • | 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.
Local Folder monitoring can be a helpful and effective tool for a number of network managements tasks, such as:
| • | Tracking presence or absence of a particular folder. |
| • | Monitoring availability of a service or an application by tracking last modification time and/or other attributes of a specific folder. |
| • | Remotely analyzing application output or application activity by inspecting folder contents. |
| • | Checking total size of application log files and warning about necessity to backup them. |
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