FlexTk File Management Toolkit - Tutorial

FlexTk File Management Toolkit http://www.flexense.comRule-Based Storage Utilization Analysis Using FlexTkThe major goal of the document is to provide FlexTk users with a step-by-step storageutilization analysis tutorial gradually guiding from a simple, manual storage analysis to anunattended, rule-based storage utilization analysis with automatic actions and e-mailnotifications. Storage analysis features and capabilities explained in this tutoria l areavailable in FlexTk Ultimate, FlexTk Agent and FlexTk Server. Let’s begin with the s impleststorage analysis operation available in any FlexTk version. Select one or more file s ordirectories in the file navigator, press the right mouse button and select the ‘S torageUtilization’ menu item. FlexTk will scan the selected files and directories, perform storage utilization analys is andopen a results dialog showing a hierarchy of files and directories sorted buy the am ount ofthe used storage space. The hierarchy of files and directories allows one to easily identifystorage utilization hot spots, find unused files and free-up wasted storage space. That isrelatively simple, but still requires the user to browse through the hierarchy of fi les anddirectories and manually look for files that are not used and may be deleted.In order to simplify the storage analysis process, FlexTk Ultimate allows one to analyze filesmatching one or more user-specified criteria. For example, it may be very useful to ana ...