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DiskMonitor - for Windows Vista, XP, Server 2003, 2000, and NT

Smart Disk Monitor

About DiskMonitor

DiskMonitor is a powerful tool that enables systems administrators to centrally monitor disk drives.

DiskMonitor automatically enumerates available networks and allows you to select disks to monitor and shares to iterate (admin access required). Critical and warning thresholds can be set. When the thresholds are crossed, DiskMonitor can send a detailed message, a PDA friendly message, or a user defined email message to any set of users.

System administrators can also configure DiskMonitor to generate directory usage reports. Each report can be generated on their own schedule and results emailed.

DiskMonitor can also be configured to append disk usage information to a file enabling system administrators to view usage graphically over time.

The user interface enables system administrators to sort disk or directory usage by name, size, or number of files.

Key Features

  • Scheduled drive space and directory size monitoring, alerting, and reporting

  • Supports S.M.A.R.T. predictive disk failure notification

  • Print and export directory security reports and user rights to CSV and XML

  • Receive notification when disks are off-line

  • Raise custom detailed and PDA/Pager friendly email alerts for warning and critical thresholds

  • Recurse entire disks

  • View and sort disk utilization by directory

  • Generate disk and directory usage HTML and CSV reports

  • Graphically view disk usage over time and sub-directory usage as percent of current directory size

  • Includes tray icon status

  • Automatically clear alerts based on a schedule

  • Supports SMTP authentication

  • Single installation monitors entire network
    No installation requirements on managed computers

Screen Shots

User Interface

The user interface has three views. There is a tree view that displays the network, disks, and monitored shares. To the right is a detail view that displays information about each disk, share, or directory. Lastly, there is a log view that displays messages generated by the DiskMonitor service.


 Tree View (click to enlarge)

Disk information


 Disk Space View (click to enlarge)

Configuring the polling frequency


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Configuring the critical threshold


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Chart dialog

Virtually all aspects of the chart can be modified and saved for later viewing.


 Chart View (click to enlarge)

 

Architecture

DiskMonitor consists of three major components:

The viewer or user interface. The user interface is used to manually view usage and configure the Windows Service for scheduled monitoring and reporting.

The Windows Service. The service monitors disk drives per schedules you define. When polled, the service generates all configured directory based reports and fires all alerts.

The Tray Icon. The tray icon changes depending on the notification status. When the service polls disk drive usage the highest alert level is reflected in the tray icon. When the alerts status is cleared, the tray icon changes its image back to normal.

Which License Do You Need?

DiskMonitor sells in three different flavors:

  • Desktop - This license allows you to run this software on Vista, Windows 2000 or Windows XP and monitor 20 drives.

  • Server - This license allows you to run this software on Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 and monitor 50 drives.

  • Unlimited - This license allows you to run this software on Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 and monitor an unlimited number of drives.

Each license comes with access to updates for 1 year. After that, you can purchase an upgrade license. An upgrade license provides you with access to updates for 1 more year.

Please click here to review our license agreement
 

 

DiskMonitor is a registered trademark of Cornerbowl Software

 

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