Tests and Examples

[scjazz]

OK so I have HostMonitor up and running and it is doing a nice job of testing many things on many servers. Here is the catch. It isn't testing nearly as many things as I want it to. The reason... I don't know the EventIDs of all of the things I want to check. I've googled the heck out of EventID and such, can't find a reasonable list anywhere.

I'm looking for things like...
RAID Status, Exchange messages, SQL server messages, Storage Quota threshold exceeded, temperature alarms, Anti-Virus software updated, Anti-Virus software NOT updated, Backup Exec failure messages, etc, etc, etc.

HostMonitor is a great product, extremely configurable, nice and smooth. But without a list/database of Events to test I'm going crazy.

Anyone have a list of EventIDs? Anyone want to share the Event Tests they have configured? Anyone know where I can go to find this information? Hint: EventID.net doesn't help since it is keyed on the ID number which is the part I NEED to know.

How is everyone else handling this issue?

Advice please,
Josh

[KS-Soft Europe]

I'm looking for things like...
RAID Status, Exchange messages, SQL server messages, Storage Quota threshold exceeded, temperature alarms, Anti-Virus software updated, Anti-Virus software NOT updated, Backup Exec failure messages, etc, etc, etc.

Below you may find several useful examples:

1. RAID
The most of the RAID controllers support SNMP protocol. You may use SNMP Get test method in such case.
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... tm#chkSNMP

To monitor Windows software RAID volumes, you may use following EventID's: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,23,24,25,26
Please see following article for details:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archiv ... x?mfr=true

Also you may check all events from "ServeRAID Manager Agent" source.

2. Exchange.
You may use WMI test method to monitor MS Exchange. http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... ts.htm#wmi
Microsoft Exchange offers various WMI objects http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms876479.aspx

Microsoft Exchange Server collects information into Event Log. There are a lots of event to count them one by one. You may use

"Events and Errors Message Center" to find out the list of events, you need:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/suppor ... anced.aspx
Please, select "Exchange" from "Microsoft Products" dropdown, and search through following "Event Sources"
MSExchangeAL
MSExchangeIS
MSExchangeSA
MSExchangeTransport
POP3Svc
When you hit "Go," you'll see all of the Event IDs that have appropriate foregoing "Event Source" as their source.

3. SQL server messages
To gather "MS SQL Server" event Id's, you also may use "Events and Errors Message Center". You should search using "MSSQLServer" event source.

4. Backup Exec.
You may use following ID's to report about Backup failure: 34113, 34338, 57348, 58053, 57751, 34114, 58057, 34578, 57797
and the following id to report the backup is completed: 34112

HostMonitor is a great product, extremely configurable, nice and smooth. But without a list/database of Events to test I'm going crazy.
Anyone have a list of EventIDs? Anyone want to share the Event Tests they have configured? Anyone know where I can go to find this information? Hint: EventID.net doesn't help since it is keyed on the ID number which is the part I NEED to know.

We already have a task that should suit your needs in our "to-do" list. It should be something like test templates, described in the following topics:
http://www.ks-soft.net/cgi-bin/phpBB/vi ... .php?t=688
http://www.ks-soft.net/cgi-bin/phpBB/vi ... php?t=3395

I think, "Test templates" feature will be implemented in version 7+:
http://www.ks-soft.net/cgi-bin/phpBB/vi ... php?t=4061

Regards,
Max