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VX Search Server Disk Space Monitor

VX Search Server and VX Search Enterprise include a built-in disk space monitor allowing one to monitor the free disk space in a number of disks, directories or network shares and provides the ability to send E-Mail notifications including file search reports showing recently created or modified files and/or execute custom actions when the amount of the free disk space drops below or rises above a user-specified limit.

VX Search Server Disk Space Monitor

The disk space monitor is located in the bottom-right corner of the VX Search client GUI application. By default, the disk space monitor shows the status of all local disks in the server. For each disk, the disk space monitor shows the disk name, the total amount of the disk space, the amount of the free disk space and the disk status according to the configuration of the disk space monitor.

VX Search Server Add Disk Space Monitor

In order to add an additional disk or network share to the disk space monitor, press the right mouse button over the disk space monitor pane, specify the name of a disk, directory or network share to monitor and press the 'Ok' button. In order to change the configuration of a previously created disk space monitor, select the required disk item in the disk space monitor pane, press the right mouse button and select the 'Edit Monitor' menu item.

For each monitored disk, the disk space monitor allows one to control the disk space monitoring frequency, the maximum number of monitoring errors and disk space monitoring actions and/or E-Mail notifications. Sometimes, when monitoring the disk space usage in remote servers or NAS storage devices via the network, a network server or NAS storage device may be temporary offline due to unexpected connectivity or hardware problems. In this case, the disk space monitor will mark such a disconnected device as 'Offline' and continue to monitor the server according to the user-specified maximum number of errors. On the other hand, if a network server or NAS device was permanently disconnected from the network, the disk space monitor will disable monitoring of the disconnected server after the user-specified number of monitoring errors.

VX Search Server Disk Space Monitor Dialog

In order to automatically send an E-Mail notification and/or execute a custom action when the amount of the free disk space drops below a user-specified limit, the user needs to configure one or more disk space monitoring actions. Open the disk space monitor dialog, press the 'Monitor Actions' button, specify the minimum amount of the free disk space to trigger the action, select the 'Send Notification' option, select an appropriate notification format and specify an E-Mail address to send the notification to. In addition, in order to enable E-Mail notifications, the user needs to open the main options dialog, select the 'E-Mail' tab and configure an E-Mail server to use to send E-Mail notifications.

VX Search Server Disk Space Monitor Action

In addition to E-Mail notifications, the user is provided with the ability to automatically search files that were created or modified during the last 24 hours and send a file search report showing recently created or modified files to the specified E-Mail address. If the user selects the 'Default File Search Command' option, the disk space monitor will automatically create a file search command configured to search all files that were created or modified during the last 24 hours and send the file search results to the specified E-Mail address. If the user selects the 'Custom File Search Command' option, the disk space monitor will execute the user-configured file search command. Finally, if the user selects the 'User Command, Script or Batch File' option, the disk space monitor will execute the user-custom command, script or batch file.