Yes you can install the heartbeat service on multiple computers and configure all of them to write their heartbeat information to the same database. Please note that the Heartbeat Status web page may show incomplete results until all agents have performed at least one monitoring cycle. A KB on how to install Heartbeat on a remote compu...
The heartbeat monitoring agent is designed to be installed only on a small number of hosts usually one. It is not necessary and recommended to install the heartbeat agent on multiple computers. The heartbeat monitoring agent will ping and monitor all configured computers from one central location. If you have a large number of computers t...
In larger network environments different groups of computers/servers are managed by separate groups. For example you have Exchange servers managed by your Exchange team and Database servers managed by your Database team. If an Exchange server goes down then the database team does not need to be notified. We can use the default heartbeat aler...
EventSentry has a unique timerfilter feature that can suppress unnecessary alerts if the error condition only lasts for a configurable short period of time. This can be applied to alerts about hosts being down services being stopped and more. In this HowTo we will use the example of heartbeat events which can sometimes generate unnecessa...
The maximum scan time is a setting in the Heartbeat service that determines how long the service will scan a device for SNMPget data and wait for a response. If a device doesn39t respond within the maximum scan time then scan will be interrupted. If this happens several times in a row the heartbeat service will log a 11012 event: Scanni...
How can I install the Heartbeat agent on a separate computer/machine EventSentry39s Heartbeat agent can be installed on a different computer/machine separate from the rest of your EventSentry installation. You can even install a second heartbeat agent in addition to your original. You may wish to do this to split resources across machine...
