If EventSentry reports Access Denied when trying to read data from the temperature and/or humidity environment sensor then this usually means that another application running on this machine has exclusive access to the serial COM port the sensor is attached to. If another application is blocking the same COM port that EventSentry is using th...

KB-ID 84
Category: Environment Sensors
Applies to: All Versions

Yes in order for the sensors to work you will have to connect the USB cable as well as the serial cable. The sensor draws power through the USB cable.

KB-ID 101
Category: Environment Sensors
Applies to: All Versions

The enviroment sensors used and supported by EventSentry require the USB port only to draw power no communication is sent via USB. It depends on the mainboard of the server/workstation on whether power is still delivered to the USB ports even when they are disabled. In most cases however power is delivered to the USB ports even when you di...

KB-ID 125
Category: Environment Sensors

In order to use the USBonly temperature or humidity environment sensor the Virtual COM port VCP drivers need to be installed on the host on which the sensor is to be connected. The VCP driver emulates a standard PC serial port such that the USB device may be communicated with as a standard RS232 device. The EventSentry management console ...

KB-ID 213
Category: Environment Sensors
Applies to: 2.93 and higher

Yes only the EventSentry agent is required to monitor temperature humidity water and/or smoke. The management console is needed to configure these sensors however. To configure the sensors copy eventsentryguix64.exe or eventsentrygui.exe for 32bit agents from the C:\Program Files x86\EventSentry folder on the EventSentry serve...

KB-ID 226
Category: Environment Sensors
Applies to: All Versions

Each day the smoke sensor does an internal self test that lasts about 20 seconds. EventSentry therefore ignores readings that last less than this time period. If you would like to test it make sure you trigger it for a longer interval such as 30 seconds.

KB-ID 233
Category: Environment Sensors

You can use the USBbased Environment Sensors with a virtual machine by redirecting the USB port from the Virtual Machine Host computer to the Virtual Machine Guest computer. To redirect the USB port in VMWare: https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmwarehorizonviewusbdeviceredirection.pdf To redirect the USB port in HyperV: h...

KB-ID 287
Category: Environment Sensors
Applies to: 3.0 and newer

First you would need to verify which COM port the sensor is attached to. In this example we will use COM3 but you would want to specify the COM port that your sensor is attached to. To test whether the sensor is able to be queried via COM3 you can download putty.exe https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/sgtatham/putty/download.html and t...

KB-ID 293
Category: Environment Sensors
Applies to: All Versions

Yes please navigate to https://www.eventsentry.com/support/documentation to download the help file and/or quickstart guide. Both documents are available in the following formats: Microsoft Help.chm Adobe PDF.pdf HTML.htm Multimedia Help.exe

KB-ID 4
Category: General
Applies to: All Versions

Yes it is recommended that you uninstall EventSentry Light with the setup application prior to installing the trial or full version of EventSentry. You will not need to uninstall the agents service from remote machines simply use Remote Update to update the agents on the remote machines once you have installed the trial version.

KB-ID 5
Category: Installation

If you use the builtin Postgres database you may need to optimize it: https://www.eventsentry.com/kb/232 If you use Microsoft SQL as your database you may need to optimize it: https://www.eventsentry.com/kb/35 If the recommended optimizations do not help please contact our support department for more indepth assistance. If you have a...

KB-ID 6
Category: Web Reports
Applies to: All

This error reported by Windows usually appears when Client for Microsoft Networks and/or NetBIOS are not installed on the management workstation and target machines for example when using Novell software. You will need to make sure that the Client for Microsoft Networks is installed when using remote update to install agents on remote...

KB-ID 8
Category: Installation

The EVENTSENTRYSVC.LOG file located in the SYSTEMROOT directory usually c:\winnt or c:\windows is the debug log file of the EventSentry agent. To reduce the size of this file set the Debug Level option in Service Control to None or Low and restart the EventSentry service. The contents of this file are always cleared when the ...

KB-ID 7
Category: General
Applies to: up to v2.43

It is important that filters using summary notifications are NOT configured to notify All Targets. When using summary notifications make sure that one and only one target is present in the filters Targets list of the General tab.

KB-ID 9
Category: Configuration

After making configuration changes on your management workstation you will need to use the Update Configuration feature of remote update to push the updated configuration to your remote machines. Rightclick the Computers container of the group you want to update and select Update Configuration. In the next dialog make sure that the co...

KB-ID 10
Category: Configuration
Applies to: All Versions

When using ODBC targets you will need to make sure that: The System DSN referenced in the ODBC target is present on all computers writing to the database. This requirement does not apply to version 2.50 and higher which also supports connection strings. Otherwise you can use AutoAdministrator to push out DSN names to remote machines. ...

KB-ID 11
Category: Notifications

Starting with EventSentry version 2.70 you can view the native event log files usually with a .evt extension with the builtin event log viewer of EventSentry. Simply rightclick the Event Log Viewer container and select Open Log File. If you are running EventSentry v2.60 or earlier then you will need to open the event log files with th...

KB-ID 12
Category: Usage

You can be notified when a remote web site certificate is about to expire using checkurl.exe from EventSentry SysAdmin Tools. For that we are going to: 1. Install EventSentry SysAdmin tools to user checkurl.exe feature. 2. Create an User Embedded Scrip 3. Create an application schedule to run the script on certain schedule. 4. Creating ...

KB-ID 431
Category: Network Monitoring
Applies to: 4.1 and later

Yes any user with administrative privileges can view and change the EventSentry configuration. The entire EventSentry configuration is stored on a permachine basis so it doesn39t matter which user logs on to the computer where the EventSentry management application is installed. The only settings that are store on a peruser basis are th...

KB-ID 14
Category: Configuration

No restarting the EventSentry service on any machine will have no effect on other machines since the agent only works with the local event logs. The EventSentry agent does write a few events to the local machine39s Application event log upon a service restart however.

KB-ID 15
Category: Usage

Filters are processed sequentially onebyone by the EventSentry agent. If an event matches multiple filters then every filter matching the event will send the event information to the configured target. This usually happens when more than one filter is configured to use Trigger all actions. To avoid seeing events multiple times: Co...

KB-ID 16
Category: Configuration
Applies to: up to 2.60

Some antivirus software products e.g. McAfee starting with version 8.x block and/or intercept outgoing connections to port 25. This will interfere with the EventSentry SMTP notification actions which sends emails using SMTP port 25. You will need to disable or customize the SMTP protection feature of your antivirus product to make the SMT...

KB-ID 17
Category: Notifications

You will need to take additional configuration steps when configuring EventSentry to access resources located on different computer. By default the EventSentry agent runs under the LocalSystem account. This is a builtin system account that has administrative permissions on the local host but usually has no permissions on remote computers....

KB-ID 18
Category: Usage

This is usually a permissions issue since the EventSentry agent is running under the LocalSystem account by default. Please click the help link below DOCID 18 for more information.

KB-ID 20
Category: Notifications

This is usually a permissions issue since the EventSentry agent is running under the LocalSystem account by default. Please click the help link below KBID 18https://www.eventsentry.com/kb/18 for more information.

KB-ID 19
Category: Notifications