Starting with Version 2.30 EventSentry is capable of monitoring parts of the Operating System to detect potential failures and problems without having to rely on the event log.
Overview
You can monitor the following system objects:
| • | Services |
| • | Monitoring the memory usage of processes to detect faulty applications with memory leaks |
| • | Monitoring whether certain processes are active |
| • | Monitoring and recording disk space |
| • | Monitor certain registry keys and file locations to detect if applications are installed/uninstalled or if an application registers itself to be automatically started when a user logs in |
Additionally you can
| • | Launch command-line applications at defined schedules and have their output logged to the event log |
| • | Backup and clear event logs at defined schedules |
All system health features are designed to apply to all computers in a group, which is sometimes not desirable. For example, if you have 2 computers in a group of 10 that don't share a particular health setting (e.g. service or diskspace), then you can configure those two hosts individually and block inheritance.
Example:
Computer LANSING is in a group of 7 computers. You are running several batch files (processes) through the 3rd Party Applications feature on host LANSING. You cannot configure this feature for all hosts in the group, since the other 6 computers do not need to run those files (and thus any subsequent remote update would override any settings to make on that host), yet you don't want to create an individual group for this computer. Follow these steps to configure this feature individually for host LANSING:
| 1. | Connect to the remote host by right-clicking the computer icon or through File -> Connect. |
| 2. | While connected to the remote host, click on 3rd Party Applications to configure this feature. |
| 3. | Check the "Block Inheritance" checkbox. This will prevent remote updates from overwriting your settings. |
| 4. | Save the configuration and disconnect. |