3.6

File Extensions by Category

Details

Summary 

This report combines file extensions in to categories. The report uses the srs.current_fs_scandata database view which limits the scope to current scans only. This recipes comes in two styles, either Detailed or Summary. Each version of the report comes with a report layout.

Version 3.6 - 4.0

The report is further limited by the sd.fullpath LIKE portion of the sql where clause. If you remove it, the report will run across all current scan_data.

Suspect Permissions: An evaluation of direct user-assigned trustees in NCP.

Summary

Create a report to locate all of the directly assigned user permissions in a particular NCP scan target.

Back Story

The customer has a number of volumes where the trustees should only ever be assigned granted via groups. They need a report to locate any permissions that have been granted to the individual user object, so that it can be evaluated.

Information

The scope of the query to limited to NCP trustees in the desired scan target. The scan_target will need to be modified to make it work based on the environment.

Current NTFS ACEs Without Inheritance

Summary

How when using the srs.current_ntfs_aces view can I report on the ACEs without inheritance?

Explaination

The srs.current_ntfs_aces view includes a field called ace_flags which is a value mask.

If the bit flag with a value of 16 is present, then the ACE is inherited. Filtering out inherited ACEs is a simple matter of checking that this flag is off.

Current NCP Trustees

Summary

Create a report that will display all NCP Trustees in eDirectory.

Back Story

The customer wanted to create a catalog of the NCP trustees for reference purposes.

Information

The scope of the query is eDirectory Tree wide, but can be limited to a particular path by adding a simple where clause.

*Starting in version 2.6.0, the "srs.active_ncp_trustees" database view has been renamed to "srs.current_ncp_trustees". While the "active" version will still with version 3.0 work it has been deprecated.

Summary with Quota and Owner

Background

A customer needed to create a report for management that shows the file and folder counts, the users quota, and how much of their quota was being used. This customer wanted all empty directories to be ignored.

This custom query shows a summary of the folders in the path provided on line 7. The report summaries the file and folder counts, size used, the quota value set, and the quota remaining.

Note: This query is written for Active Directory and can be modified for use with eDirectory.

Find long file names in eDirectory

A customer asked for a query to find filenames that are too long, and might cause issues when migrating files from eDirectory to AD. The customer requested that query find filenames longer than 128 characters. The filename length to be reported by changing line 12, and the scope can limited by adding sd.scan_target = '\\server\share' to the where clause. 

Note: If you have downloaded an older version of the is query and have moved to version 3.5 of the product, the old active_fs_scandata views have been replaced with current_fs_scandata.

 

File Extension Find Media Formats

Summary

This is file extension report that displays the fullpath, filename, size, owner, scan_target, and file_extension from the srs.current_fs_scandata database view, and is limited to current scan data.

Although, this query is written to report on media based file extensions, line 16, can be modified to any set of file extensions needed.