Introduction to clustered watch folder

You can use the clustered watch folder to monitor file systems, filesets, and inode spaces for file accesses.

With the clustered watch folder feature, it is possible to watch file operations across clusters by using a centralized tool that has scalability and resiliency built-in. An entire file system, fileset, or inode space can be watched. Clustered watch folder captures file system activities at the IBM Storage Scale file system level, generates event notifications for those activities, and streams the notifications to topics in an external sink that you can manage.