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  1. Color Code

    It would be great to color code each monitored directory under the grid log.

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  2. Web View Plugin

    A plugin that allows Directory Monitor to publish events over HTTP or Web Sockets so that you can monitor activity over the internet.

    Using a technology such as SignalR (http://signalr.net/), real-time events from Directory Monitor could easily be consumed from a web page over the internet.

    You would configure an HTTP end-point that SignalR clients could connect to and listen for events on their configured directories. The end-point provided could be a completely custom site. An example monitoring page will be provided as well.

    46 votes
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  3. Linux support using Mono

    When v2 of Directory Monitor started being developed, I kept Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/) in mind to also support Linux and had the application running using Mono in Ubuntu.

    I have not been actively testing Directory Monitor in Linux although it is entirely possible to have a functional build that will provide the same features on a Linux distribution running Mono.

    If there is enough interest in this (votes) then I will provide an official build and fully supported version to the public.

    20 votes
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  4. Event Log Writer Plugin

    A plugin that writes Directory Monitor events to the Windows Event Log.

    This could write to the application event log (errors are already written there) or to it's own custom event log for monitoring with administrative tools like SCOM.

    15 votes
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  5. RSS Feed Plugin

    A plugin to expose Directory Monitor events through an RSS feed.

    This could be very useful for admins running the application as a service to be constantly notified over the web of what is happening on the servers.

    The event data would be exposed just as it does through the textual or grid log views on the UI. You would configure an end-point that Directory Monitor would feed information to in ATOM or RSS2 XML.

    21 votes
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  6. SMS Plugin

    A plugin that can send the event information as an SMS to configured mobile numbers.

    Could use a service like CardboardFish (http://www.cardboardfish.com/) to send the SMS. Are there any other services available like this?

    3 votes
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  7. Support for Novell and non-Windows/Samba shares.

    Directory Monitor will only be able to detect changes in shares that are running a Windows-based operating system or use emulated Windows shares such as Samba (SMB). Because of this, no changes will appear when motioning shares that are exposed through various other protocols such as NFS.

    To overcome this a polling mechanism could be put in place (the snapshot feature does this already), which will periodically take a snapshot of a share's contents and try determine the changes from the previous one.

    This technique is somewhat unreliable depending on the latency of taking the snapshot and you would lose…

    3 votes
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  8. Monitoring file SIZE changes

    Monitoring File size changes

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  9. Cryptolocker / ransomware

    Hello there, I'm a very happer user of your product, I generally do not use it for anything else but trying to catch a cryptolocker / ransomware in the act.

    I believe I have configured it so it works very well,

    my biggest "issue" is that because I have the software looking at so many servers / pc's it takes forever to edit each job, Could it be possible if that you create a template, let's say a group. a group called "ransomware" and then inside the job under Main -> Filters instead of typing in each Include patterns that…

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  10. In-app help / documentation

    More information in the form of in-app help, i.e. install process, system minimum requirements for the main app and the config assistant, best practices (DNS names vs ip addresses)

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  11. Ability to post to social media triggered by various events

    I wish to post to social media (Facebook, Twitter) when a new video clip appears in a directory, with the option to include the clip.

    4 votes
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  12. Manually trigger action

    Add the possibility to manually start an action just in case the trigger did not work

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  13. 1st. Show us how-to on Growl; 2nd. Besides email alert, please add text so that DM can send text alert to cell phone

    1st. Show us how-to on Growl; 2nd. Besides email alert, please add text so that DM can send text alert to cell phone

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  14. Provide a self contained reporting website

    Have a website reporter that can report using database entries created by the application. Essentially, it would search the data based on a drop down of users, calendar dates, event types. Be nice if it could then export the results to excel and/or a pdf. This would be a simple self contained website you could drop to an IIS server.

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  15. Ability to globally change directory settings

    Ability to change specific directory settings on multiple directories at once. A grid edit feature could also be useful.

    For example:
    check/uncheck monitor subdirectories for all directories

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  16. Trigger repeatedly for a new file

    The option for a Monitor to trigger repeatedly when a matching file is present. Right now, DirectorMonitor only triggers once for a new file, but I'd like to have the option for it to keep triggering until that file is gone.

    2 votes
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  17. Zero notification (silent) directory option

    The ability to setup a directory that does not cause any user notification such as balloons, tray icon flashing or even the tray icon changes. Events created will be completely silent but still logged to the Text and Grid logs and any automation steps will also be run, there will just be no indication to the user that anything has happened.

    This can be useful for ignoring events in directories you knowingly are making changes to and want to log the changes, but not be concerned with a notification. More important directories can notify you in some way so that…

    4 votes
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  18. hot keys

    double click to view properties instead of open target folder and provide customize hot keys for pause(ctrl+p), resume(ctrl+r) etc.,

    6 votes
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  19. Here's a hint you can give on your website...

    I needed to POST to my server every time a file changed so my server could react RIGHT away....

    I set the program to execute a batch file with the following code...
    ECHO OFF
    ECHO POSTING...
    curl -F "1=%~1" -F "2=%~2" "http://example.com/api/fileevent.php"
    PAUSE

    It worked brilliantly..
    Just add curl to the directory of the bat file
    http://curl.haxx.se/latest.cgi?curl=win64-ssl-sspi

    2 votes
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  20. Symlinks and Junction Points

    Have the ability to automatically monitor any symlinked or junction point directories.

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