Monitor your Windows environment
Windows File Share Monitor tells you exactly what is happening on your Windows infrastructure. It monitors and records every access to your Windows file shares, recording details of user name, client application, server name, event type, file name, and data volume. Windows File Share Monitor stores this information in a database, and uses it as the basis for a wide range of reports that you can access via the browser-based user interface.
Features at a glance
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Windows File Share Monitor generates reports that give you a user-based, client-based, or server-based perspective on Windows file share activity.
Each report is presented in a summary format, with filtering to enable you to see activity associated with individual users or servers, and drill-down capability to enable you to view more detailed information on the activity that interests you.
Windows File Share Monitor comes with a set of pre-configured reports that provide data for common network and system administration scenarios. You can also create custom reports to meet your own requirements.
HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, enacted by the United States Congress in 1996. It requires the implementation of standards for patient privacy and access to their patient health information, and it defines a wide range of covered entities to whom the act applies.
If your organization is a covered entity and it stores patient health information on Windows file shares, Windows File Share Monitor can help you comply with your HIPAA obligations.
The alerting and scheduling capabilities of Windows File Share Monitor enable you to receive e-mail alerts when specified events occur and to schedule reports to be generated and e-mailed at regular intervals.
Windows File Share Monitor enables you to maintain a comprehensive audit trail on all file shares on your network so you can demonstrate compliance with standards. If abuses or security breaches occur, they will immediately come to your attention so that you can take corrective action to prevent them recurring.
Note: Ability to associate events with user names requires the optional Active Directory module to be installed.
With the unique level of insight it offers into activity on a Windows network, the Windows File Share Monitor will quickly become an indispensable part of your network management and system administration toolkit. You can apply it to a wide range of troubleshooting and monitoring tasks.
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At a technical level, the Windows File Share Monitor works by analyzing network traffic that uses the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB), a network file-sharing protocol that facilitates sharing of data between clients and servers. SMB is primarily a Windows-based protocol but a number of third-party products exist to make it available on other platforms including OpenVMS, HP-UX, Solaris, Novell Netware and Linux. The open-source implementation, Samba, is the most widely used. Windows File Share Monitor can monitor file share activity on any platform that implements the SMB protocol.
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