I need to monitor the availability of a file server and also create a report displaying any down time it had. This need to focus not on the server itself but the ability to share files. This is a Windows 2012 R2 system using windows file shares. What items should this application monitor? Below is a list of some items I had thought of but I believe that these still fall short:
- Server (hardware) uptime, i.e. if it is down then its not serving files
- Storage availability
- Network availability (it would appear down to Solarwinds if it falls off the network)
What I seem to be missing is a way to monitor that there is traffic related to the sharing of files. This does not need o say how many or what files are shared just that they are being shared.
