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3.2 Effective System Health Monitoring
GFI EventsManager is able to perform thorough system checks on your servers and workstations. It
uses Active Monitoring to help you detect and proactively fix system errors and hardware defects, to
prevent network disasters.
System checks are able to monitor mission-critical servers including Microsoft
®
ISA Server
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, Exchange
Server
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, SQL Server
®
and IIS
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. They can even be configured to delve deeper into systems and monitor
email queues, SMTP gateways, MAPI availability, bad hard disk blocks, disk space, and more.
Monitoring the effectiveness of rules and policies enforced on your systems helps determine how well
plans and actions are working in practice.
1. Add event sources
After GFI EventsManager is installed, it automatically adds the localhost to the list of event
sources. Add other sources manually or automatically, according to your preferences.
Add computers manually by specifying computer names, IP addresses. For more infor-
mation refer to Adding event sources manually.
Computers can also be added automatically as soon as they are discovered by GFI Events-
Manager. For more information refer to Adding event sources automatically.
2. Configure event sources
Configure event source properties to enable active monitoring and events processing. Refer to
the following sections for information about:
Configuring event source properties
Configuring event source monitoring
Collecting event logs.
3. Configure alerts and default actions
One of the key features of GFI EventsManager is the ability to send notifications and perform
pre-defined actions when certain event logs are collected.
Plan how notifications are sent and configure mail server, SMSgateway or network settings
accordingly. Add recipients in GFI EventsManager to which notifications are sent.
Once complete, configure the default actions to perform when specific events are processed.
Refer to the following section for information about:
Configuring the administrator account
Managing user accounts
Configuring alerting options
Configuring default classification actions.