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File Count Warning via Report?

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andy jackson

Hey everyone,

as a new user of the fabulous PDQ Deploy & Inventory i need some help with a request in our company.

We need to monitor a folder to react in time if the files in there are not automatically processed. Is it possible to do this job by a report that automatically checks the folder every 60 minutes. The report should send me a mail if there are XX files that are older than maybe 1 hr.

Thanks in advance

Pascal

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    Wei

    You may be able to do it with PDQ Deploy (scheduled deployment/once every hour) and PowerShell.

     #Current timestamp minus hour
 $Check_Time = (Get-Date).AddHours(-1)   
 
 #Not sure how you define "processed", I just use "LastWriteTime" as example. 
 $Check_Files = Get-ChildItem -Path "Your_Folder" -Recurse | Where-Object {($_.LastWriteTime) -lt $Check_Time}
 
 #If all the files are "processed", nothing happens, else send out an email.
 If ($Check_Files -eq $null) {

 Write-Output "All files are processed"

}

else {

Send-MailMessage 

}

    This task is really for monitoring solutions like PRTG (if you run less than 100 sensors, it's free) or nagios.

    https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/file_sensor https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/System-Metrics/File-System/File-Age-Check/details

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    andy jackson

    Thanks a lot! I will have a look at this 😃

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