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10 Active Monitoring
Event logs are useful to track different operational aspects of devices, computers and servers, but in
many cases users need more than logs to inspect this activity in further detail. To mitigate this
problem, GFI EventsManager uses Active Monitoring Checks. Monitoring checks help you detect
failures or irregularities automatically, so you can identify and proactively fix unexpected problems
before they happen.
GFI EventsManager ships with a set of predefined checks, specifically designed to cater for Windows
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operating systems, Linux/Unix operating systems, SNMP devices and Network/Internet protocols and
services.
This chapter provides you with information about managing, creating and using Active Monitoring
Checks.
Topics in this chapter:
10.1 About Active Monitoring Checks 190
10.2 Creating and configuring a root folder 192
10.3 Adding sub-folders to a root folder 196
10.4 Creating and configuring active monitoring checks 201
10.5 Applying active monitoring checks 206
10.6 Deleting folders and monitoring checks 207
10.1 About Active Monitoring Checks
A monitoring check is a pre-configured rule, bound to a system's component or activity operation,
such as CPU Usage or Ping Requests, that are used to check system availability. Active monitoring
checks continuously scan event sources to determine if the configured parameter conditions are being
met.
Whether a monitoring check fails or succeeds, it generates an event log from the computer that it
scanned. GFI EventsManager assigns a severity rating to the generated event log.
An event processing rule can be created from the generated event log. Events processing rules can
automatically trigger alerts, run additional checks and run scripts/applications to fix the problem
that generated the log.