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Management

The EventSentry management application was designed to make monitoring as easy as possible while offering great flexibility at the same time. EventSentry features an intuitive MMC-like management application that lets you easily configure EventSentry and manage remote computers. After you have setup and configured EventSentry to meet your needs, changing and adapting settings is quick and easy.

Package Management

Package Icon EventSentry can be easily configured using Event Log, Log File, Health and Tracking packages. Packages contain one or more monitoring objects and are either assigned globally, to computer groups or to individual computers. EventSentry ships with a number of pre-configured packages which mostly exclude unwanted events from being sent to your email notifications. These packages are constantly under development and can be downloaded from within the management application. Packages contain information such as:

  • Event log filters which instruct EventSentry to forward one or more events to a notification (e.g. email)
  • Log File rules which instruct EventSentry how to consolidate and process log files (flat files)
  • Disk Space Monitoring settings (e.g. alert when disk space is below 500Mb on C drive)
  • Service Monitoring settings (e.g. alert when any of the IIS services is not running)
  • Performance Monitoring settings (e.g. which counters to monitor and their respective alert settings)
  • Logon Tracking settings (e.g. track all logon information)

Remote Update

Network Transmission Icon Remote Update allows you to easily administer and update monitored computers running the EventSentry agents. With remote update you can push out the latest agents (e.g. after an update or a patch installation) but also send the latest configuration to the remote computers. Remote update supports managing servers and workstations from different domains.

The remote update procedure can also be completely automated using the command-line Remote Update Utility. This utility can be scheduled to run at regular intervals (e.g. twice a day) through the Windows scheduler and will ensure sure that:

  • All agents have the latest configuration
  • All computers have the latest agent installed
  • All computers have the agent installed and running

If one or more of your computers groups are linked to an Active Directory OU or group then the Remote Update Utility can also automatically install the agent on computers that were added to the linked OU or group.