Directory Watch is an NT service that monitors up to six directories/queue’s. These directories could be message queues, file transfer queues, or any other directory that has the behavior of files moving in and out. You can keep an eye on things with Directory Watch.

With Directory Watch’s undetectable footprint in memory and your hard drive. It is ideal for monitoring critical applications such as E-Mail servers such as MAILsweeper or MS Exhange, FAX servers, Web server such as Webshphere or IIS.

Directory Watch can also be a early warning mechanism to alert you of a denial or service attack, mail bomb, or malformed messages that can halt your email system.

Directory Watch can be configured to give your entire messaging system a heartbeat. Simply send out a messages to a mailbox that is monitored 24x7 by a Network Operations Center (NOC). The “Pulse Checking” can be fit into the NOC's regularly scheduled monitoring routine.

Directory Watch can be configured as a job schedular to run up to six programs as a Windows Service. Simply set the directory threshold to a value that is always true and define the program to execute when the threshold is met. Every time Directory Watch cycles, the program you defined will execute.

Directory Watch can be used to add automation and workflow to applications. Simply set criteria by directory. You get a order in through FTP, one Queue Monitor scans the directory and finds it, starts or executes the next step in the process. You have up to six queues! One queue can monitor for a backup, while others do different things.

Best of yet, Directory Watch can restart NT services that may have problems, send out a SMTP alert to a cell phone, or even reboot your server on a schedule.

Why use Directory Watch

Its a 32-bit multiprocessor, multithreaded Windows Service. Which will allow it to survive the log on/off process.
Can send out SMTP E-Mails, which can potentially be used to mail-enable an existing application, act as workflow agents, alarm you of an event in a directory.
You can configure every aspect of Directory Watch and there are no restrictions or limitations to what you can do with it. Configuration can be changed without requiring a reboot or restart of Directory Watch services.
Lightning fast scanning .
Avoid catastrophes, and down time. Don't count on customers letting you know something may be wrong.
Monitor up to six directories/queues.

Directory Watch is a good insurance policy and makes good sense.

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Requirements	If you have	If you have
Microsoft .NET Framework	1.1	2.0
need Service Pack	KB867460	none
need Hotfix	KB886903	none

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