File movement monitoring and alerts

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We have applications that integrates to other applications through files exchanging. We needed to be able to be notified on the following situations:

Files are accumulating on a certain folder, reaching a defined number of accumulated files;
A file is present on a folder without being taken by the app for more than a specified number of minutes;
A folder has been empty with no file movement for more than a specified number of minutes;

Is there any tool for Windows that would allow me to set e-mail alerts upon those events? Preferrably a free one :)

I believe this might be a stupid question, but I swear I tried to google it for two days and I came up only to the wrong tools, or tools too difficult to learn.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Cheers,

Jonathas Carrijo

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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On Linux you can use inotify and dnotify to monitor the folders and have a script that is doing what you need. Take a look on incrond too.

On Windows you could write a powershell script and use FileSystemWatcher Class.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3517460/is-there-anything-like-inotify-on-windows

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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answered Oct 31 '12 at 17:36

Mircea Vutcovici

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Thanks, Mr Vutcovici. Actually, I fogot to say that our servers run on Windows. – Jonathas Carrijo Oct 31 '12 at 17:48
The post you mentioned referenced a Java API http://jnotify.sourceforge.net which seems a promising choice for our needs. – Jonathas Carrijo Nov 01 '12 at 12:53

File movement monitoring and alerts

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