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With EventSentry you can monitor parts of the Operating System to detect potential failures and problems. With System Health Monitoring EventSentry can generate alerts in the application event log and/or consolidate information (e.g. CPU usage history, installed applications) in a central database.

 

Overview

You can monitor the following system objects:

 

•Services
•Monitor and track any performance counter
•Monitor the memory usage of processes to detect faulty applications with memory leaks
•Monitor whether certain processes are active
•Monitor and recording disk space
•Monitor selected directories
•Monitor certain registry keys and file locations to detect if applications are installed/uninstalled or if an application registers itself to be automatically started when a user logs in
•Monitor directories for file size changes, file additions/deletions and file checksum changes

 

Additionally you can

 

•Launch command-line applications at defined schedules and have their output logged to the event log
•Backup and clear event logs at defined schedules
•Control Services

 

Built-In System Health Packages

NETIKUS.NET maintains a set of health packages that contain common health settings for service, disk space and performance monitoring. These event log packages are installed automatically with EventSentry and can be updated automatically over the Internet. See Downloading Packages for more information.

 

Applying System Health Packages

To apply a health package, right-click the package and select "Assign". In the resulting dialog select a group or computer to apply the package to.

 

Creating and Deleting System Health Packages

To create a new health package right-click the System Health Packages container and select Add Package or right-click a system health package and select Add.

 

To delete a health package, right-click the package and select delete. All health objects contained in the health package will also be deleted.

 

Adding/Removing health objects to a Health Package

A health package consists of one or more health objects, whereas every monitoring feature (service monitoring, performance monitoring, etc.) is a health object that can be added to a health package.

 

To add a health object to a health package, right-click the health package and select the desired health object from the Add submenu:

 

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The new health object will appear under the health package with a blue wheel icon Cog 16 n g associated with it. Please note that you cannot add more than one health object of the same type to the same health package. For example, you cannot add two Service Monitoring objects to the same health object.

 

To remove a health monitoring object, right-click the health object and select Remove this object.