PowerShell script to monitor folders on NAS drive

neeraj21 · 2020-08-05T01:53:16.000Z

Hi Folks,

I want to create a Powershell script and schedule it as a task on my windows server for every 1 hour.
So that it will monitor for a particular file type (if that arrives in last 1 hour) in a folder and it’s subfolders on a NAS drive and send me an email alert with file list and its folder/subfolder names.

Can anyone please help me in getting any sample script for the same.

Thanks!!

#Path folder
$checkForFiles = "C:\Users\nkuma299\Desktop\Folder_File_Test\Test\*"
#Test for the existence of files
$computer = read-host "ge3rnas01cifs1"
if(Test-Path \\$computer\200002679_VOL01\HUB\INVEXP_E3\Processing){
$computer "/yes`n" | out-file C:\Users\nkuma299\Desktop\Folder_File_Test\log.txt -append}
else{$computer "/no`n" |out-file C:\Users\nkuma299\Desktop\Folder_File_Test\log.txt -append}

$fileExistence = test-path $checkForFiles.Filter = "*.*"
$fileExistence
#check for the existence of files in the folder
      if ($fileExistence -eq $true) 
	{
      send-mailmessage -subject "File Unprocessed" -from test@xyz.com -to neeraj_kumar11@xyz.com `
      -smtpserver SMTP-TEST.xyz.com 
	}
      # If no files exist, do nothing
      else
      {write-host "nothing to process"}

Neally · 2020-08-05T02:03:19.000Z

What have you tried where are you stuck?

look into

Get-childitem -recurse # to check for the file
if($condition){<#do something#>} # if statement so you validate
send-mailmessage # to send the email

and here is how to schedule the task for every hour:

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/17736-run-powershell-scripts-from-task-scheduler

Give it a shot yourself. if you get stuck feel free to post the code you have tried and we’ll help

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neeraj21 · 2020-08-05T05:03:13.000Z

Hi Neally,

Thanks for your response. Below is the script which I created.

#Path folder
$checkForFiles = "C:\Users\nkuma299\Desktop\Folder_File_Test\Test\*"
#Test for the existence of files
$computer = read-host "ge3rnas01cifs1"
if(Test-Path \\$computer\VOL01\HUB\INVEXP\Processing){
$computer "/yes`n" | out-file C:\Users\nkuma299\Desktop\Folder_File_Test\log.txt -append}
else{$computer "/no`n" |out-file C:\Users\nkuma299\Desktop\Folder_File_Test\log.txt -append}

$fileExistence = test-path $checkForFiles.Filter = "*.*"
$fileExistence
#check for the existence of files in the folder
      if ($fileExistence -eq $true) 
	{
      send-mailmessage -subject "File Unprocessed" -from test@xyz.com -to neeraj_kumar11@xyz.com `
      -smtpserver SMTP-TEST.xyz.com 
	}
      # If no files exist, do nothing
      else
      {write-host "nothing to process"}

Neally · 2020-08-05T05:18:04.000Z

ok so what exactly is not working?