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System Health and Tracking

System Health

The following system health features support logging of information to the EventSentry database:

If you are working with a default installation of EventSentry, then chances are that most system health monitoring objects are already configured and active. Expand the System Health Packages container to find out which system health packages are installed. Expand the individual packages to see which monitoring objects they contain. If a particular object does not exist, then you can right-click the package and select Add and select a health-monitoring object.

You can either specify the ODBC target at the object level (e.g. in the service monitoring object), or at the package level. It is recommended that you set the ODBC target on the package level since this makes administration significantly easier. An ODBC target set at the package level will automatically apply to all objects of that package, so add as many objects as needed to the package.

You will still have to configure some options on the object-level, for example how often disk space information is to be written to the database. See Health Packages in the official documentation for more information.

Tracking

All tracking features of EventSentry require a database, they cannot be used without a database. Just like with system health monitoring, you can either specify the ODBC target at the object level (e.g. in the logon tracking object), or at the package level. I recommend that you set the ODBC target on the package level since this makes administration significantly easier. An ODBC target set at the package level will automatically apply to all objects of that package, so add as many objects as needed to the package.