Targets

A target (or destination) is how you choose to be notified of a new event. EventSentry can notify you in ten ways:

SMTP Email

Sends you an email when relevent events occur, supports a primary and a backup SMTP server. Emails can be sent in three different formats, including PLAIN (text email), (X)HTML (visually more appealing but bigger in size) and MINI (text email very small in size, useful for pagers and cellphones). You can also specify the maximum number of event records per email.

You can customize the subject, sender name, sender email, email format and more. Emails are resent if the mail server is temporarily unavailable (click here for details on this feature).

SMTP login (authorization) is supported for mail servers that support the AUTH LOGIN authorization method.

Text File

Writes events to a text file. Choose between the three available formats including plain, csv and (x)html.

ODBC

Writes events into an ODBC database, you may use any database server that provides ODBC drivers for Windows. Please see our online guides section for a beginners guide on setting up a MySQL database on Windows for use with EventSentry.

Syslog

Events are sent to the specified syslog server using either UDP or TCP.

SNMP

Sends SNMP v1 traps to a management station.

Parallel Port

Events are sent to the parallel port of a printer capable of interpreting ASCII characters. Most matrix printers on the market support ASCII characters.

Network Message

Just like one can send messages through the net send command, EventSentry can send network messages to any Windows NT based host. Please note that the Messenger service needs to be running on the host that is to receive the message.

Process

Start an external process whenever an event is received. You can pass custom command line parameters as well as certain event record properties in any order. The started process can either run in the background or be visible on the desktop.

Sound

The service can play any .wav file.

Desktop Notification

Sends a notification to the locally running GUI (eventsentry_gui.exe) which can either display a balloon, a popup window or do nothing.