Adding Computers

Before you add computers to an existing or new group, you should select the appropriate group features. The group features determine whether computers in a group will be monitored by the heartbeat monitor or not. You can set and change the group features by toggling the check boxes in the "Group Features" section.

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Manage remove EventSentry agents

Check this box to enable the management of computers in this group through the Remote Update feature. This will enable you to install, uninstall and update the EventSentry agents on all computers in this group.

If none of the hosts in this group run Windows, then you should not check this box. This will allow you to use Heartbeat-Only licenses for those hosts which cost less.

Monitor Heartbeat (ping, TCP status)

Check this box to have the EventSentry heartbeat agent monitor all computers/devices in this group. Note that the option to "Monitor EventSentry agents" is only available if the first check box is also checked.

Note: You will always have to at least check one of the two check boxes.

You can either add computers manually by right-clicking the Computers container of a particular group, or you can import computers from the network or Active Directory. Please see Remote Update -> Importing for more information on importing computers.

If you configured the heartbeat agent to write the host status information to a database, then you will need to restart the heartbeat agent through the "Service Control" container after you removed one or more computers. If you do not restart the service then you will still see the computer(s) on the heartbeat status page.

Note: When linking a group to Active Directory, be sure to click "Get Service Status" once (right-click the computers container) so that the computers from Active Directory are cached. If you omit this step, then the heartbeat service will not be able to monitor this group. You will also need to select the "Get Service Status" every time the list of computers change in Active Directory. We will be adressing this limitation in a future release of the heartbeat agent.