What is Disk Monitor?
Corner Bowl Disk Monitor is a comprehensive software tool designed for IT professionals, encompassing a wide array of monitoring and management features. These capabilities include free disk space and directory size monitoring, file integrity monitoring (FIM), ransomware detection, reporting of the largest files and directories, file access permission analysis, automatic temporary file, log file and database backup cleanup, centralized file consolidation, and more. Disk Monitor also helps meet various compliance standards such as CJIS, CMMC, JSIG, NIST, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI/DSS, and SOX.
Free Disk Space Monitoring and Reporting
- Monitor free disk space and changes in free space over time.
- View historical free disk space charts along with a predicted date the disk will run out of space.
- Summarize disk space information from all your servers to a single view.
Directory Size Monitoring and Reporting
- Monitor directory sizes and change in directory sizes over time.
- View historical directory size charts.
- Interactively browse directory sizes and recursive delete sub-directories and files.
- Real-Time directory size monitor alerts include a list of the top largest files that caused the monitor to trigger.
- Summarize directory size information from all your servers to a single view.
File Integrity Monitor (FIM)
Continuously monitor operating system, application and mission critical data files for user access, changes made to file content, attributes and access permissions on both Windows and Linux servers.
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Ransomware Detection
Using a combination of FIM, real-time Object Access Auditing, and real-time directory monitoring, get notified the instant a file is modified, deleted, renamed, moved and created in any monitored directory or sub-directory on both Windows and Linux servers.
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Largest Files Reports
- Run system wide largest files reports to see what files are consuming the most space.
- Configure the number of files and metadata columns to include in the report.
- Includes group and sort by options.
File and Directory Access Permissions Reports
- Recursively scan and report on all file and directory permissions.
- Configure search criteria including specific accounts and permissions.
- Define simple and detailed output rules.
Duplicate Files Report
- Run system wide duplicate files reports to see what files can be deleted to free disk space.
- Define duplicate files using the following match options: Name, Size, Last Modified and Contents Hash.
- Includes group and sort by options.
File Activity Reports
- Run system wide file activity reports to list files by most recently accessed or not accessed since a specific date, for example, receive a report that lists the top ten recently accessed files within a directory structure.
- Includes group and sort by options.
Directory Cleaner
- Automatically delete old database backups and log files on Windows and Linux servers.
- Schedule system and user temporary files to be deleted once a day.
File and Directory Change Monitor
- Real-time monitor files and directories for created, modified, deleted and renamed events.
- Target results to a specific set of files using inclusion and exclusion search criteria, for example, log all changes to files with a .txt extension while excluding files named *_output.txt.
- Append results to a CSV file and send email notification alerts.
File Collection and Retention
- Continually backup files to a central location, for example, database backups and IIS log files.
- Deleted previously backed up files after they reach a certain age, for example 2 years.
- Start and restart services to unlock files.
File Count Monitor
- Monitor the number of files in a directory.
- Automatically run PowerShell Scripts to perform corrective actions, for example, shut down a service, delete unnecessary files then restart the previously shutdown service.
SMART Disk Monitor
- Centrally monitor SMART predictive disk failure status on all of your managed Windows servers.
- View all SMART predictive failure properties in the Management Console.
