Community Development Project: File System Management Pack (Your Feedback Requested)
There are several resources available for monitoring files, folders and shares in System Center Operations Manager 2007, but they have been presented in an ad-hoc fashion, and not really designed for specific use case scenarios.
With that in mind, several community experts have agreed to collaborate to develop a proper model-based, monitor driven, File System Manage Pack targeted to the most common customer scenarios. Based on customer feedback, the MP will be designed to monitor various aspects of files, folders and shares, including auditing of resource access if this is a common need.
Your feedback is requested - You can help the team design and build the best file system management pack by providing your feedback on your common file system monitoring scenarios. Your help in beta testing the result will also be appreciated.
Please respond to the following questions and add any additional suggestions you deem appropriate.
1. What aspects of files, folders or shares do you most commonly need monitor?
· Check to see if a file exists
· Number of files in a directory
· File size
· File age
· File share availability
· Folder monitoring (same properties listed above)
· Other
2. Do you like custom performance views? For which items?
· File size
· File transfer response time
· Folders (same as above)
· Other
3. Do you have need to monitor file access?
4. What reports would commonly use for presenting monitoring data?
5. Which specific applications drive your need for file, folder and share monitoring?
The group is looking forward to your feedback!