Heartbeat monitoring monitors any network device that is reachable through TCP/IP. Heartbeat monitoring itself is performed through the EventSentry Heartbeat Monitor service and is usually installed on one computer on your network.
Heartbeat monitoring pings remote hosts and checks TCP ports, but can also query information from remote SNMP agents to obtain information like disk space, system info, uptime and performance information.
1. Selecting computers to be monitored and setting a group type
In order for a computer to be monitored it will need to be added or imported into a group that is heartbeat-enabled (more info).
2. Setting global heartbeat configuration options
Some configuration options (such as the polling interval) will be set globally, applying to all computers. Other options can be set on a per-group and on a per-host level (more info).
3. Setting group options
This chapter shows how to setup the initial monitoring configuration for a group (more info).
4. Customizing heartbeat options on a per-host basis
This chapter explains how to override group settings on a per-host level (more info).
5. Setting maintenance schedules for schedules outages
If one or more machines are schedules to be down at a certain day or hour then you can set maintenance schedules for these periods to avoid receiving notifications (more info).
6. Viewing the heartbeat status and history through the web reports
The current heartbeat status is available under "Status - Heartbeat" in the web reports.
