File System Monitor

Windows file-system monitor which detects and logs changes made to the given files and directories. The file-system monitor gets a list of directories to monitor, and logs any changes made to the directory and all sub-directories and files to the console.

Simple Usage

StartMonitorDirectory(std::wstring(L"C:\\temp\\test\\test7"));

How it works?

I used the Windows Audit Mechanism to track changes made to files/folders in the directory we tracked (this is implemeted here ). In order to received events written to Event Log I created a subscriber which implemeted here. The manager which start tracking each directory given is implemented here.

Prerequisites

Visual Studio 2015

Compile and Deployment:

This project was develop in Visual Studio 2019 in 64 bit. In order to run it:

• Build the project (Ctrl+Shift+B)
• Run it (Ctrl+F5)

Future work

Still need to write the logs messages to file.