File Server monitoring with Topologix

Infrastructure & Networking

Windows file-server health over WinRM — SMB share availability, FSRM quota pressure, and SMB security-config drift: SMBv1 must be off and signing required, with any drift called out by name on the card.

Requirements

  • A low-privilege domain account with WinRM (HTTPS/5986) access to the file server(s). Credentials are stored server-side and never sent to the browser.
  • WinRM reach from the Topologix server or — recommended — a proxy agent on the LAN. FSRM (File Server Resource Manager) is optional: quota rows appear only where it’s installed.

1 · Set up the integration

  1. Open the Integrations pageClick Integrations in the toolbar and pick File Server from the catalogue.
  2. Enter the WinRM accountWinRM service account (e.g. CORP\svc-monitor), Password, optional WinRM port (default 5986), and the self-signed listener toggle.
  3. Pick the proxyConnect via proxy (recommended) for file servers on the LAN.
  4. Create, then verifyClick Create, then reopen the integration, enter a server under Test file server host, and click Test to verify WinRM access. Each file server becomes its own metric source.
The integration catalogue — File Server found via search.
The integration catalogue — File Server found via search.
The File Server configuration drawer with example values. Every screen in this guide is the real product.
The File Server configuration drawer with example values. Every screen in this guide is the real product.
Target on a private network? Route it through a proxy agent. Proxy agents run inside your network — behind NAT, on a management VLAN, in an air-gapped segment — and reach targets the Topologix server can't. The agent polls the server every 15 seconds for its assignments, runs the checks locally, and pushes results back every 5 seconds, so no inbound firewall rules are ever needed. Set a default proxy on the integration; every metric source can override it. If a proxy goes offline, its sources are marked stale within ~90 seconds and the last known values stay visible.

2 · Add it to a flow

  1. Select the file-server nodeClick the node, open Metrics, then + Add and choose the File Server integration.
  2. Point at the serverEnter the File server host and the FSRM quota warn % (default 90).
  3. SaveSet the interval and click Add Source. The card shows shares with online state and encryption flags, the SMBv1/signing/encryption verdicts with named drift, and FSRM quotas worst-first with the near-limit count.
Live canvas screenshots for this integration require a real File Server environment, so this guide shows the configuration screens only — the flow steps above work exactly like every other integration.

Good to know

  • Two allowlisted collectors per poll — smb-config (Get-SmbServerConfiguration + Get-SmbShare) and fsrm-quota (Get-FsrmQuota); a missing FSRM install is tolerated and the card still renders shares and SMB config.
  • Volume capacity and DFS-R backlog come from the windows_exporter smb/dfsr roles on a Server Vitals source; ransomware signals (mass renames, file-screen bursts) come from the Windows-security Graylog presets.

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