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Verifying Backups & AntiVirus Updates

In this example we will setup a filter that will notify us when a backup event is not written to the event log between 1AM and 6AM in the morning from Tuesday to Saturday. NTBackup logs an informational event to the application event log with the event id of 8001and an event source of "NTBackup" (NTBackup actually logs this event for every drive or object that was successfully backed up - usually resulting in more than just one of those events being written, but for the sake of simplicity we will assume that we are only interested in one event).

1. Creating the recurring event filter

Create a new package or add a new filter to an existing package with general settings as shown in the screenshot below:

Then, configure the recurring event options by clicking on the Hour/Day tab and duplicating the screenshot settings shown below:

The pushed buttons represent the hours between which the event should occur, and the schedule type needs to be set to Recurring Event. If the event configured in the General tab of the filter does not appear in the event log at the specified time, then EventSentry will log an Error to the Application event log with the event id of 10620. Please see Recurring Event Filters in the manual for additional information.