File Blocking

File Blocking monitors disk space in real time, according to the requirements that you define in a volume policy. File Blocking rules enable you to block files as follows:

By file type. Inappropriate file types are blocked immediately.
By scanning file content. This enables you to trap files that have been renamed to disguise their file types.
Additionally, it is possible to scan the contents of compressed files, such as ZIP files.

You can also control monitoring as follows:

The volume policy enables you to specify folders that must not be monitored and folders that must be monitored.
You can edit the properties of a file server to define a list of users whose files are never blocked.
You can enable, for each file server, a quarantine location for blocked files. Files that are blocked as a result of content-scanning are moved automatically to the quarantine location. Files that are blocked because of their file types are never moved to quarantine. Optionally, you can define a central quarantine location that is used by all file servers.

Within a policy you can have many different rules. Each rule enables you to configure notifications that are sent what that rule is broken.

The following notification types are available:

Messenger Service messages (NET SEND)
Event log entries
Email
SNMP traps