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File Share Monitoring Software
File share auditing
LANGuardian tells you exactly what is happening on your Windows infrastructure. It monitors and records every access to your Windows file shares, recording details of user name, client application, server name, event type, file name, and data volume. LANGuardian stores this information in its database, and uses it as the basis for a wide range of reports that you can access via the browser- based user interface.
With the unique level of insight it offers into activity on a Windows network, LANGuardian will quickly become an indispensable part of your network management and system administration toolkit. You can apply it to a wide range of troubleshooting and monitoring tasks, for example:
- Finding out what files have been deleted from a file share and who deleted them.
- Identifying the users that have accessed a specific file or file share over a specific time period.
- Counting how many files of a given type are shared on the network.
Screenshots
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Using LANGuardian to audit access to a specified file within a specified time period.
Creating custom dashboards containing the reports that are of interest to you.
Detecting and reporting on users who are sharing MP3 files on the network.
Auditing files that have been deleted from the network in the previous 24 hours.
Generating a PDF version of report for mailing.
Tracking user history and exporting to PDF.
How it works
At a technical level, LANGuardian works by analyzing network traffic that uses the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB), a network file-sharing protocol that facilitates sharing of data between clients and servers. SMB is primarily a Windows-based protocol, but a number of third-party products exist to make it available on other platforms including OpenVMS, HP-UX, Solaris, Novell Netware and Linux. The open-source implementation, Samba, is the most widely used. LANGuardian can monitor file share activity on any platform that implements the SMB protocol.
Find out more
If you have any questions about how LANGuardian can help you with your network monitoring requirements, please contact us. If you would like to see LANGuardian in action, please try our online demo system or download a free 30-day trial to try it on your own network with your own data.
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