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Heartbeat Monitoring

Heartbeat monitoring allows you to monitor any network device that is reachable through TCP/IP. Heartbeat monitoring itself is performed through the EventSentry Heartbeat Monitor service and is usually installed on one computer on your network.

Please click on the "more info" links in the text below to read more about heartbeat monitoring.

1. Installing the heartbeat monitor

The heartbeat monitoring agent can be installed either through the EventSentry setup (it can be added through the "Modify" option) or by clicking on the "Install" button in "Heartbeat Agent Control" section of "Service Control".

2. Selecting computers to be monitored and setting a group type

In order for a computer to be monitored it will need to be added or imported into a group that is heartbeat-enabled (more info).

3. Setting global heartbeat configuration options

Some configuration options (such as the polling interval) will be set globally, applying to all computers. Other options can be set on a per-group and on a per-host level (more info).

4. Setting group options

This chapter shows how to setup the initial monitoring configuration for a group (more info).

5. Customizing heartbeat options on a per-host basis

This chapter explains how to override group settings on a per-host level (more info).

6. Setting maintenance schedules for schedules outages

If one or more machines are schedules to be down at a certain day or hour then you can set maintenance schedules for these periods to avoid receiving notifications (more info).

7. Viewing the heartbeat status and history through the EventSentry management console or web reports

Heartbeat monitoring integrates nicely into an existing EventSentry database setup, but you can also view the status and history of monitored hosts without having to setup a database (more info).