| Program: Hard Drive Monitoring Program |
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This is a program that will monitor hard drive space on all computers you have access to either via Active Directory
or access via the Work Group Name Space. This program will email you (as long as you have SMTP installed on the machine
you are running the app from) when a hard drives free space falls below a threshold you set. There are a few requirements
to run this app on your machine.
1. You must have version 1.1 or greater of Microsofts .Net Framework installed.
2. Must have Microsofts SMTP Server installed.
3. Admininstrator access to the computers you are monitoring.
4. Must be running Windows 2000 Pro or higher.
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| HDDM.zip (Auto Setup File) |
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| History: |
11/20/2004: * 1st Release version of application.
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| Read Me: |
There are 2 applications. 1. The Hard Drive Monitoring application 2. The Config Helper application
The Hard Drive Monitoring App. ------------------------------ This program will do 3 things. 1st - It will try to connect to your Active Directory Domain or Workgroup Name Space to get a list of domains to try to connect to. 2nd - It will try to connect every computer and query each hard drive in it. If a hard drive falls below a certian threshold (which you set) the program will email you a message lettign you know this. 3rd - Log computer name, free space and date/time in an access database located in the data directory. All freespace is logged as Gigabytes.
Once it has aquired the list of computers it will try to connect to each one. Once it is connected to a computer it will query each drive that the user running the app has access to. It will then print out the server name, the hard drive letter and the amount if freespace available on it. It will then log this information into a access database named hddm.mdb in the data directory. If a hard drive falls below a certian threshold (which you set) the program will email you a message lettign you know this. If If the program is unable to connect to a computer it will display "Unable to Connect to Computer" next to the server name. It will also write to the error.log file located in the \logs directory. It will write the computer name, current date and time, the error number and the error description to the file. The file is in a tab delimited format for easy export to a database if you choose. The program will query each computer once every 60 minutes.
The Config Helper App. ---------------------- This program will 1 thing. It will create/update the config.cfg file found in main directory with the following information. Active Directory Domain Name/Work Group Name Space Name (There is a button you can click that will automatically find all available AD Domains and/or Work Group Name Spaces) Hard Drive Warning Threshold in Gigabytes (You will only be able to enter WHOLE numbers like 1 or 5) E-Mail Address Warning Threshold Email being sent from. E-Mail Address Warning Threshold Email being sent to.
Once you have entered all the information you will need to click the "Update Config" button.
If you have any questions regarding this program please shoot me an email at larry[at]windowsadminscripts.com
11/04
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