Heartbeat Monitoring |
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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 or two computers on your network.
Please click on the "more info" links in the text below to read more about heartbeat monitoring.
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".
In order for a computer to be monitored it will need to be added or imported into a group that is heartbeat-monitoring enabled (more info).
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).
This chapter shows how to setup the initial monitoring configuration for a group (more info).
This chapter explains how to override group settings on a per-host level (more info).
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). |