SpectorSoft Disk Monitor A useful tool for monitoring disks from entire network
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SpectorSoft Disk Monitor is a software application that is specialized in disk space management. It provides a set of tools that can be used for monitoring space and changes on the disk, disk utilization percentage, directory size statistics, largest file statistics, temporary file information, as well as file and folder permissions for up to 20 network nodes.Prior configuration settingsBefore starting to collect data and trigger alerts, there are several configuration steps that you need to follow. The utility lets you set up a domain or local administrator account by providing details about the username and password. In order to receive email notifications, you need to give information about an email address, server name, TCP port, security type, login data (username and password), as well as name and email address of the sender. Other settings help you tweak mail server options and data location parameters. View the collected information in a dashboardSpectorSoft Disk Monitor sports a multi-tabbed layout that allows you to check out a dashboard with centralized disk resources placed at your fingertips. You can easily keep an eye on a multitude of critical resources and proactively manage your disk space using the real-time display mode. There’s also support for a wide range of templates that you can make use of for quickly activating a set of preconfigured tasks, such as Ping Template that records the failure rate prior to triggering or HTTP Template that sends an email alert when a website is down. How it worksThe server manager can be installed on a single target system that helps you remotely manage computers, devices and hosts. It comes with support for different alerts and notifications, such email, SMS, remote desktop popups, and SNMP traps. The generated reports can be exported to HTML, PDF, CSV or plain text file format. Logs and reportsSpectorSoft Disk Monitor gives you the possibility to archive Windows event, Syslogs and text logs. Plus, you can generate security event log reports for object access auditing data, failed and successful longon sessions, account management, account lockout, new accounts, duplicate files, largest items, and recently accessed files. Monitor different types of resources and create schedulesYou may keep an eye on disk space, CPU and memory load over time, examine and control applications and services such as websites, email servers, databases, Windows services and processes, as well as monitor Internet connectivity and throughput, disk and directories, Windows Registry changes, SSL, digital certification and validity. Schedules can be created in order to execute tasks at a certain time. You may define a specific time to activate an action or enter a range of available time values. Batch tasks and filtersA set of batch jobs is put at your disposal in order to perform multiple actions at the same time, namely update computers, devices, hosts and templates, assign hosts to groups, as well as delete devices, computers and hosts. You can apply various types of filters for limiting specific log entries and manually searching computers in Active Directory. You may create new filters or choose between several predefined ones, such as Active Directory, event log, failed or successful logon, Syslog, and text log. Log management and viewing optionsYou may perform several actions regarding log data, such as email, encrypt and sign files. In addition, you may export logs to CSV, HTML, PDF, TXT, ELF or SLF file format, automatically control for how long the information is stored in the log repositories, search for logs, as well as view consolidated, backed up and text log files. A reliable and efficient disk monitoring appAll in all, SpectorSoft Disk Monitor comes with the right tools for helping you perform a proper utilization of network storage resources, and is suitable especially for advanced users. Reviewed by Ana Marculescu, last updated on December 13th, 2014

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