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[Genoes] - Monitoring Specific Subdirectories in Geneos (Windows)

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The Disk plugin in Geneos can only monitor entire file systems or partitions (e.g., F:) and does not support monitoring individual subdirectories such as F:\temp or F:\log. If folder-level monitoring is required, a custom script integrated via the Toolkit plugin must be used.

Problem Copied

Attempting to configure the Disk plugin to monitor specific folders (e.g., F:\temp, F:\data) instead of the full drive.

The Disk plugin only detects mounted file systems (e.g., C:, D:, F:).

Subdirectory paths are ignored because they are not treated as file systems.

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• Root Cause 1: Attempting to configure subdirectory paths in the Disk plugin.
• Root Cause 2: Expectation that Disk plugin supports folder-level size calculation.
• Root Cause 3: Misunderstanding of how Windows reports disk usage metrics.

Possible solution(s) Copied

• Solution Root Cause 1: The Disk plugin is designed to monitor file systems/partitions only, not folders.
• Solution Root Cause 2: Windows does not provide real-time size metadata for directories like it does for mounted drives.
• Solution Root Cause 3: Folder size monitoring requires recursive file scanning, which is outside the Disk plugin’s scope.

Related article(s) Copied

• https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/collection/disk/index.html
• https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/collection/toolkit-plugin/index.html#Heading-overview