Storage audit tool
A standalone application that runs on your side, before any Caelum deployment. It discovers your SMB servers, measures how data is distributed by age (what is actually archivable) and produces a report plus an export that is importable into the sizing tool. Graphical interface, Windows and macOS — no command line.
The app is not signed by a publisher certificate yet. On first launch: macOS → right-click the app → “Open”; Windows → SmartScreen → “More info” → “Run anyway”.
Enumerates shares over SMB2 (Windows NetShareEnum, macOS
smbutil) — Windows, Samba, NAS/Synology included. Each server keeps
its own credentials. Manual entry supported. Parallel scan.
Histograms of volume per age bucket (by modification and by access), from “< 1 month” to “≥ 5 years” — to see exactly what is archivable.
Produces a *_sizing.json to load into the
sizing tool:
volume and tiering slider pre-filled.
How to use it
-
Download the application for your system (Windows
.exeor macOS.dmg) onto a machine on the client network. - macOS: open the
.dmg, dragCaelumAudit.appinto Applications, then right-click → “Open” on first launch (app not notarized). Windows: run the.exe; if SmartScreen appears → “More info” → “Run anyway”. - In the “Servers and credentials” section: enter the server (name or IP), username and password, then “Add”. Repeat for each server — each one keeps its own credentials. To reuse an account already entered, pick it from the “Username” dropdown (the password fills in).
- NAS / Synology / Samba:
use a local account of the NAS
(e.g. Synology
admin). Windows / AD server:DOMAIN\user. -
Click “Browse shares”
(or add a share manually:
\\server\shareor//host/share), then tick the shares to audit. -
Choose the output paths
(HTML report and
*_sizing.jsonexport), then “Run audit”. The HTML report opens automatically when done. -
Go back to the sizing tool
and click “Import an audit” to load the
*_sizing.json.
The application is read-only: it never modifies any file on the audited servers.