Monitor Activity on Pogoplug?: Pogoplugged

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October 19, 2009 11:09 AM

Hi Cshaw,

There is currently no good method for monitoring whether or not people are using the drive. You could ssh or telnet into the plug if you happen to be on the same LAN and see if there's any activity, but that's probably less convenient than watching the blinking light.

Real-time monitoring of disk activity is not a feature set that we had planned, but it is certainly one that we'd consider if it seemed like something folks wanted. Hope that answers the question!

Bristolview

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November 2, 2009 4:27 PM updated: November 2, 2009 4:34 PM

I'd be interested in this ability too. My interest is more of a "what's going on" view. At times, the access light seems to begin blinking, stops, starts, etc. Just like someone is reading or writing to the drive. That would be fine except that both my Home PC, and my work notebook were powered off, and they are the only machines I've Put the drive client on, and I was not accessing the web interface. Question is, who did? And what were they doing? It is not shared with anyone else. After about 20 minutes of access light blinking, and my router indicating traffic flow... it stopped. What happened?

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January 6, 2010 4:42 PM

i would like this feature too. being able to monitor who accessed or is accessing data on my drives would be awesome. something like a download history and an activity monitor.

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January 8, 2010 1:54 PM

this sounds like a very useful feature to have.

DaveV

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January 9, 2010 5:56 PM

Jon.QA said:

Hi Cshaw,

There is currently no good method for monitoring whether or not people are using the drive. You could ssh or telnet into the plug if you happen to be on the same LAN and see if there's any activity, but that's probably less convenient than watching the blinking light.

Real-time monitoring of disk activity is not a feature set that we had planned, but it is certainly one that we'd consider if it seemed like something folks wanted. Hope that answers the question!

I agree. I think that would be a feature a lot of people would like to have =)

Rich

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March 9, 2010 7:03 AM

My hard drive (Famtom Drive G-Force 2TB eSATA USA 2.0) happens to be noisy. It constantly has activity as if it is being pinged every second. This is at a time that there should be zero activity. Perhaps this is just the way it works? I have a support ticket open with this question.

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