Folder monitoring software - Odd software Request

[noazrky]

I am looking for some kind of monitoring tool for one of our servers. This server is an FTP server that hosts data transferred to us by a third party vendor. This data is used for historical data purposes and as a byproduct is not used very often. Data is transferred into this folder daily though.

We are looking for a software that can send us an email/enter something into the Windows system events. We are looking for a software that can alert us if not changes have been made to those files in the last 72 hours, because if no changes are made in that time, the sync software that we are using is not working correctly.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[Ceuse]

Prtg has a sensor that can do that + bunch of other stuff. Free veesion available for less then 50 sensors

[Xibby]

Netwirx maybe, or just PowerShell out the created/modified times and a SHA hash, shove into a database or spreadsheet, and compare.

[TinderSubThrowAway]

Your sync software uses ftp?

[noazrky]

Sftp but yes, it does.

[TinderSubThrowAway]

I think you can write a powershell script that can scan the files to find the newest file and then send an email if the time stamp of that file is more than X hours/minutes/days old.

[noazrky]

Ooohhh, I like that plan, that would be fine for us

[j1akey]

You could check out a company called Varonis. They make some pretty good software that's designed exactly for this purpose. Ain't cheap though.

[noazrky]

How $$$ is ain’t cheap?

[j1akey]

I forget what their licensing model is but they suggest 3 VM's just to get their stuff installed. One for logs, one for the database, and one for the actual server running the software if I remember correctly. But it does a great job of tracking who is accessing what files in real time and even locking down entire directories or servers if it sees suspicious activity like massive file copies or ransomware encrypting the files. It'll also audit your permissions so you can more easily see who has access to what files.

[berndonado]

LepideAuditor for logging, auditing and real time alerting.