SyncBreeze Server Disk Space Monitor

SyncBreeze Server and SyncBreeze 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 provide the ability to send E-Mail notifications when the amount of the free disk space drops below a user-specified limit.

The disk space monitor can be displayed in any of the left-side tool panes of the SyncBreeze client GUI application. By default, the disk space monitor shows the status of all local disks in the server. In order to open the disk space monitors dialog, double click on the disk space monitor tool pane. For each disk, the disk space monitors dialog 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.

In order to add an additional disk or network share to the disk space monitor, press the right mouse button over the disk space monitors dialog, 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.

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.

In addition to E-Mail notifications, the user is provided with the ability to automatically execute a custom command, script or batch file to delete unused or old files to free up the disk space. In order to enable an automatic disk clean-up command, select the ‘Execute Command’ option, set the command mode to 'User Command, Script or Batch File' and specify the name of the command or batch file to be executed.