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MonitorMagic Implementation Guide Version 1.0, October 2004 12. Apply policies You can now begin to apply policies to your servers listed in the Manual Computers branch of the network tree. To do this, drag the Operating System – Windows General policy and drop it on the top entry of the Manual Computers branch. Repeat this action for every computer. Note that when you drag-and-drop a policy, new entries appear in the window in the middle of the client, called the Monitor window. When applied, policies are activated immediately. As you can see in the screenshot below, a disk monitor on one of the computers has raised an alert. Based on the configuration performed in previous chapters, you probably received one or more e-mail alerts from MonitorMagic. When done applying this policy, scroll through the monitor window and look for red entries. If none exist, you will not receive any email alerts. Also note that this window will contain a great number of entries, one for each monitor. As you apply more policies, this window is not the perfect place to get a quick overview of the status of your servers, so later on we will introduce a new window for this purpose. © 2004, Tools4ever – www.tools4ever.com, Page 12 of 23
MonitorMagic Implementation Guide Version 1.0, October 2004 13. Setup report data collection The first set of policies is now active and is storing data into the database connected to MonitorMagic. Data storage for the policy Operating System – Windows General has been pre-configured; make sure for new policies that require data storage, to enable this setting. The only information that is currently not being recorded into the database is the Windows event log. Since event logs can become very large in size, MonitorMagic has a separate scheduler to enable event log archiving outside office hours to minimize the impact on your network. To enable event archiving, go to the Report menu and click Configure report data collection. When prompted, specify the MonitorMagic service which will perform the event archiving operation and continue. The next dialog is the report profile configuration window, where you can setup how, which and when event logs are stored. Click the Add button to create a new profile and assign a name to it, as shown below. Next, select the option to archive only specific logs and select the Application and System logs from the window. Make sure the checkbox “Get report log information now” is selected, since that will trigger the immediate event log archiving process for test purposes. Click OK to exit this configuration and return to the report profiles window. Select the report profile and click the Computers button. Assign the computers you want to include in the event archiving process and confirm your configuration by clicking OK until you return to the main client application. © 2004, Tools4ever – www.tools4ever.com, Page 13 of 23
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