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4 Managing Event Sources
This chapter provides you with information about adding and managing your event sources. Event
sources are networked computers and devices that are accessed and processed by GFI
EventsManager. The Events Sources sub-tab, enables you to organize your event sources into specific
groups. You can create new groups or use the default ones to distinctively configure and organize
event sources.
Topics in this chapter:
4.1 Adding event sources manually 67
4.2 Adding event sources automatically 68
4.3 Creating a new event source group 71
4.4 Configuring event source properties 73
4.5 Database sources 81
4.1 Adding event sources manually
To manually add a new event sources to a computer group:
1. Click Configuration tab > Event Sources and from Group Type, select Event Sources Groups.
2. Right-click a computer group of your choice and select Add new event source…
Screenshot 40: Add new event source wizard
3. The following table describes the available options: