# Need to index filesever info into the elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-index-filesever-info-into-the-elasticsearch/102794>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 5, 2017, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-index-filesever-info-into-the-elasticsearch/102794 "2017-10-05T06:42:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![RohanKumbhar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rohankumbhar/32/23649_2.png) [@RohanKumbhar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RohanKumbhar)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-index-filesever-info-into-the-elasticsearch/102794/1 "2017-10-05T06:42:44Z")

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Hi Team,

I have one use case where i want to collect the fileserver information like Number of Unique Files, File Meta data (like file size, creation\_date , modified time etc) and number of users etc.

Is there any way to collect these info from file server and index into the elasticsearch?

Thanks,  
Rohan

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-index-filesever-info-into-the-elasticsearch/102794/3 "2017-10-05T08:41:33Z")

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I did a funny experiment some time ago. Might be useful for you: [http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2015/12/10/building-a-directory-map-with-elk/](http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2015/12/10/building-a-directory-map-with-elk/)

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**Author:** ![RohanKumbhar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rohankumbhar/32/23649_2.png) [@RohanKumbhar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RohanKumbhar)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-index-filesever-info-into-the-elasticsearch/102794/4 "2017-10-05T10:11:07Z")

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@dadoonet: Thanks !!, Can we have separate beat to collect this info? this will be really useful

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-index-filesever-info-into-the-elasticsearch/102794/5 "2017-10-05T10:25:46Z")

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Well... We welcome community beats 🙂

Dunno if @monica's team has plans around this though.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-index-filesever-info-into-the-elasticsearch/102794/6 "2017-11-02T10:26:09Z")

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