Directory Monitor Pro 2.10.5.2 (Install + Portable)

About this release

Version: 2.10.5.2 (01 April 2016)
Languages: English, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Polish
Runs on: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 - Server 2003/2008/2012
Requires: .NET Framework 4.0 (automatically installed - install version only)
Install: run installer, run batch file and overwrite .dll file in installation directory
Portable: registered, just unpack and run main executable
In both cases: deny internet access

Directory Monitor Pro Features

Real-time notifications: Get notified within milliseconds of file modifications, deletions, renames, new files and file access on your file system or network shares.

- Monitor local directories or network shares including hidden/private shares.
- Options to detect all files in subdirectories and changes to file attributes.
- Balloon notifications whenever an event is detected.
- Include and exclude filter patterns per directory.
- Available as a console application (PRO).
- Able capture and process over 400 change events per second.

Accurately detect the user making changes (PRO): Find out which users are making changes to directories or files in near real-time.

- Report on the application process as well for local changes.
- Users can be detected locally or network shares in your network.
- Automatic configuration of the machine and directories to enable auditing.
- Enforce the system audit policy to remain even if malicious users try to disable it.

Ultimate reliability with snapshots (PRO): Enable snapshots to ensure changes can be detected while the network is down and even during power outages.

- Fast snapshots of directory and file statistics.
- Ensure you never miss any changes as well as user and process detection.

Windows background service monitoring (PRO): Directory Monitor can be installed as a Windows service with multiple user configurations.

- No need to be logged into the machine to continue monitoring changes.
- Simple configuration and installation through the user interface.
- Extremely low memory and CPU footprint when running in the background.

Keep your monitoring logs automatically: Use text logs to store your file system change events for later inspection.

- Output contextual information based based on the event using macros.
- Customize the output format (CSV for example) with only data you require.
- Manage log file with built-in renaming to split the log into daily of monthly copies.
- All monitoring configurations can log to the same file.

Execute scripts/applications when events occur: Optionally execute any script or application when one or more file system change events occur.

- Pass in contextual parameters to your scripts based on the event information using macros.
- Execute scripts or applications silently in the background (PRO).
- Sequential execution option if scripts or applications cannot have more than one instance running.
- Trigger based on number of events, delays or inactivity for batch processing.

Send emails about the file system changes: Easily send emails to multiple recipients for every event or after a certain number of changes in bulk.

- Flexible configuration options to cater for all email servers.
- Provide contextual information based on the event using macros.
- Sending rules based on number of events, no events after a period of time, delays or inactivity for batch processing.
- Throttling to prevent spamming when significant changes occur in a short period of time.

Save events to a relational database: Store file system events in an easy to query relational database of your choice.

- Support for SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle.
- Automatically create the required database schema.

Play a sound to get your attention: Be notified with audio when changes occur.

- A sound will play once per file system event.
- Sounds can play continuously in a loop until you take action and view the user interface.
- Only WAV files are supported.

Send file system event messages to a Syslog server: Send directory event messages to a Syslog server locally or on your network.

- Default Syslog configuration options.
- Support for both RFC3164 and RFC5424 Syslog header formats.
- Define your own message format for each directory using macros.
- Select any facility and priority level for your messages.

Advanced notifications with Growl: Get notifications anywhere, even your mobile device by using Growl.

- Growl is a powerful cross-platform messaging system.
- Custom notification alert windows, less invasive and more customizable than system tray balloons.
- See notifications even when application is running in the background as a service.
- Keeps a history of notifications that have passed.
- Basic configuration for local notifications or sending to a remote target such as a mobile device.

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