Configuration - System Monitoring


The system monitoring settings control monitoring for key indicators, event logs, performance items, services, availability, network devices and security updates. For each aspect of monitoring, the related response defines how ServerAssist responds to incidents.

Note that not all monitoring sections are applicable to all system types.

Key Indicators

The key indicators report provides an "at a glance" indication of system health. Any change to the levels, as determined by the configured thresholds, is a potential issue that merits investigation. ServerAssist can monitor the key indicators, and respond when any of the status of any metric (except the alert count) changes.

Performance Items

The collected performance data can be displayed on the performance chart report, but this requires visual analysis to see important changes in the values of collected items. ServerAssist can monitor the collected performance data, and respond when the value for a performance item crosses a configured threshold.

Event Logs

Entries in the event logs are very often important indicators of system problems. ServerAssist can respond whenever an event is logged to any of the event logs. Filters can be used to ensure that only relevant events are processed.

Services

ServerAssist checks key services, to ensure that they are running, and responds if they fail. Once per minute, all monitored services are individually checked, and if one of them is found to be not running, it can be restarted automatically.

Availability

ServerAssist can connect to a system check that it is connectable from the management server.

Network Devices

ServerAssist can 'ping' devices on the network to ensure that both the device and the network are operational.

SNMP Traps

ServerAssist can listen for traps sent from SNMP devices. Note that the Windows SNMP Trap service must be running in order to listen for traps.

Security Updates

Integrating with the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, ServerAssist will continually monitor the security profile of your Windows computers, automatically checking for relevant updates at set intervals.