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A sensor to keep a log of users who modify/delete files in a shared folder.

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In our file system, our domain users used shared folders to access files for their department. Sometimes users accidently deletes a file,

We want to configure a sensor to track/monitor and log the files that were deleted/modified and provide the list of user names and date/time stamp of when that file was deleted..

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Created on Mar 14, 2017 6:26:40 AM



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Dear fuzzi

This kind of detailed file monitoring is not possible with PRTG's default sensor. You can monitor a folder size and the number of files, but not get those logs of file access events.

Created on Mar 14, 2017 1:44:47 PM by Arne Seifert [Paessler Support]




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