Windows platform connector Event viewer alarming

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Hi,

How do i set up the windows platform connector to raise an alarm when in the event viewer when it detects an Error and clears it when it gets back to normal (it’s the same id etc)

Miguel Obregon [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Answered question 17th October 2024

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Hi Gerwin,

You can proceed as follows:

  • Verify that the parameter ‘Read Event Viewer’ is set to ‘Yes’
  • Right click in the Event Viewer table and in the context menu select ‘Add a new event’. Populate the options according to the event that you would like to monitor:
    • Event Source: The source of the event (Column ‘Source’)
    • Event Category: The category of the event (Column ‘Task Category’)
    • Event ID: The ID of the event (Column ‘Event ID’)
    • Severity Information Type: The severity of the alarm that will be raised in DataMiner when the event level is ‘Information’
    • Severity Warning Type: The severity of the alarm that will be raised in DataMiner when the event level is ‘Warning’
    • Severity Error Type: The severity of the alarm that will be raised in DataMiner when the event level is ‘Error’
    • Alarm Type: If alarms for new events should be grouped

Hope it helps.

Gerwin van der Kamp [DevOps Enabler] Edited comment 18th October 2024
Gerwin van der Kamp [DevOps Enabler] commented

So that means that if i have for instance same source and ID and map the Information type to none and Error type to Major i’ll get an major error when i got an error in the event viewer and that will be cleared when the information type rolls by?

And how often is the event viewer polled?

Did some testing polling is about 30 seconds which is fine. But i get an major error but it wont clear.