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Default Parameters for GrpAppHealthTest

Using this test, you can be instantly alerted if any of the aforesaid errors, which are categorized as ‘1202 events’, is captured by the application event log. Detailed diagnostics provided by the test will enable you to troubleshoot these errors. This way, issues in group policy application/propogation can be quickly captured and efficiently resolved. 

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for GrpAppHealthTest.

  • The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

  • The LOGTYPE parameter refers to the type of event logs to be monitored. By default, this is set to Application.

  • Using this page, administrators can configure the event sources, event IDs, and event descriptions to be monitored by this test. In order to enable administrators to easily and accurately provide this specification, this page provides the following options:

    • Manually specify the event sources, IDs, and descriptions in the FILTER text area, or,

    • Select a specification from the predefined filter policies listed in the FILTER box

    For explicit, manual specification of the filter conditions, select the No option against the POLICY BASED FILTER field. This is the default selection. To choose from the list of pre-configured filter policies, or to create a new filter policy and then associate the same with the test, select the Yes option against this field.

  • For this test, the FILTER is set to all by default. The all filter policy is pre-configured to monitor all event descriptions with the event source SceCli and event ID 1202. Do not disturb this default setting.

  • The eG agent can either use WMI to extract event log statistics or directly parse the event logs using event log APIs. If the USEWMI flag is Yes, then WMI is used. If not, the event log APIs are used. This option is provided because on some Windows NT/2000 systems (especially ones with service pack 3 or lower), the use of WMI access to event logs can cause the CPU usage of the WinMgmt process to shoot up. On such systems, set the USEWMI parameter value to No. On the other hand, when monitoring systems that are operating on any other flavor of Windows (say, Windows 2003/XP/2008/7/Vista/12), the USEWMI flag should always be set to ‘Yes’.

  • The DD FREQUENCY refers to the frequency with which detailed diagnosis measures are to be generated for this test. The default is 1:1. This indicates that, by default, detailed measures will be generated every time this test runs, and also every time the test detects a problem. You can modify this frequency, if you so desire. Also, if you intend to disable the detailed diagnosis capability for this test, you can do so by specifying none against DD FREQUENCY.

  • Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with "$" indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to "xyz" and $port will be changed to "80" when configuring a test.