filesystemwatcher - File Monitoring in PowerShell -

• we want monitor file activity on 1 of shared folders on our server.

  $folder = 'd:\mysharedfolder' 

• planning use filesystemwatcher , log activities new, change & delete text file.

  $fsw = new-object io.filesystemwatcher $folder, $filter -property @{includesubdirectories = $true;notifyfilter = [io.notifyfilters]'filename, lastwrite'} register-objectevent $fsw created -sourceidentifier filecreated -action  {   $name = $event.sourceeventargs.name   $changetype = $event.sourceeventargs.changetype   $timestamp = $event.timegenerated   write-host "the file '$name' $changetype @ $timestamp" -fore green   out-file -filepath d:\reports\phx_new.txt -append -inputobject "the file '$name' $changetype @ $timestamp" } 

• we want run monitoring between 0800 1800 (business hours)

• we want break monitoring log files, file huge if monitoring left running day saving single file.
• we plan run in 15 minutes interval, in hour's time should @ least 4 log files.

thank in advance.

for can make script configurations want , @ end invoke script run on configured intervals.