A client had a requirement of seeing if a file on a share exist, and if it did - count the number of files in it.
Another process creates a directory and puts file into it, each weekday before 9am. If the directory does not exist or there are zero files in the directory - then the process if broken and needs to be looked into.
This powershell script is executed every two minutes and the associated alert is executed at 9am. By doing a regular polling, we get an idea of when the process creates the directory and how many files are in there. I'm sure it can be optimized and shortened. 
$date = Get-Date
$date = $date.ToString("MMddyyyy")
$path_out = "\\SomewhereOverTheRainbow\OUT\" + $date
If ( (test-path -path $path_out) -eq $True) {
$filepath = "\\SomewhereOverTheRainbow\OUT\" + $date
$filetype = "*.*"
$file_count = [System.IO.Directory]::GetFiles("$filepath").Count
Write-Host 'Statistic: ' $file_count
}
If ( (test-path -path $path_out) -eq $False) {
Write-Host 'Statistic: ' -1
}
Thanks
Amit
Loop1 Systems
