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How to make the Windows Software RAID log to the event log
Windows Server has long provided admins the ability to create a software RAID, enabling redundant disks without a (potentially expensive) hardware RAID controller. If you are already using Windows...
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Monitoring Windows Updates
Automatic Windows Updates are a wonderful thing when they are working as expected, and many organizations employ WSUS or patch management software to keep their infrastructure up to date with the...
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Mobile Alerts: Pushing EventSentry alerts directly to your mobile devices...
When it comes to mobile alerts, email seems to still be the prevalent method of choice for many IT pros. There are many good reasons why network alerts delivered via email are convenient: easy to...
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CryptoLocker Defense for Sysadmins
It seems as if CryptoLocker has been making the rounds lately, much to the dismay of users who don’t have working backups of their precious office documents. While I admire Cryptolocker’s simplicity...
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Automatically Restarting a Failed Windows Process
Whether it’s a critical process running on a server or an application on your desktop – sometimes processes terminate and need to be restarted – immediately. With EventSentry & EventSentry Light...
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The Essential Security Tools of the EventSentry SysAdmin Tools
Part of our larger EventSentry network-management solution, the freeware EventSentry SysAdmin Tools offer a set of graphical and command-line utilities designed to help you with your daily...
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The “Check” Monitoring Utilities of the EventSentry SysAdmin Tools
Last week, we talked about the security-focused utilities of the freeware EventSentry SysAdmin Tools, part of the larger EventSentry network-management solution. The SysAdmin Tools offer a set of...
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How the EventSentry SysAdmin Tools Focus on File System Maintenance
Over the past couple months, we’ve taken time to go through the various EventSentry SysAdmin Tools, one by one, and show you how they can benefit your environment in powerful ways. We’ve talked about...
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Managing Windows Services & Service Credentials
Every Windows server runs a seemingly ever increasing number of services which range from built-in services providing core Windows functionality (e.g. Print Spooler, Bitlocker, WMI) to 3rd party...
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An alternative to email alerts. Part 1: Using Trello to manage EventSentry’s...
Trello is a simple yet powerful and innovative task management / collaboration platform for teams. With Trello, the developers have basically taken the familiar concept of traditional white boards...
View ArticleHow to identify long-running processes
I always enjoy visiting customer sites for training or consulting since I learn about their unique challenges and requirements, and how EventSentry can meet them. During a recent visit an interesting...
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How to dynamically toggle your Wireless adapter with EventSentry
Most of the time I work on a Lenovo laptop running Windows 7, and I’m overall quite happy with the laptop (especially after the mainboard was replaced and it stopped randomly rebooting). However, a...
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How to make the Windows Software RAID log to the event log
Windows Server has long provided admins the ability to create a software RAID, enabling redundant disks without a (potentially expensive) hardware RAID controller. If you are already using Windows...
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Trapping CryptoLocker/CryptoWall with Honey
When I wrote my first, original post about CryptoLocker (“CryptoLocker Defense for Sysadmins”), I didn’t intend there to be a part 2 or even 3. But alas, due to the “popularity” of CryptoLocker and the...
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How to dynamically toggle your Wireless adapter with EventSentry
Most of the time I work on a Lenovo laptop running Windows 7, and I’m overall quite happy with the laptop (especially after the mainboard was replaced and it stopped randomly rebooting). However, a...
View ArticleEventSentry SysAdmin Tools: New SNMP query utility “snmptool”
I’m excited to announce a new version of our free EventSentry SysAdmin Tools which, in addition to bug fixes and minor improvements, also includes a new command-line tool: snmptool. This brings the...
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Automatically restarting services or processes based on resource usage
In the ideal world, every software we install on our servers and workstations uses as few resources as possible, doesn’t have memory or handle leaks and never crashes. But in reality, Sysadmins often...
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Defeating Ransomware with EventSentry & Auditing
There seems to be a new variant of ransomware popping up somewhere every few months (Locky being the most recent one), with every new variantion targetting more users / computers / networks and...
View ArticleAdditional Notes on EventSentry Update v3.2.1.30
Our latest patch for EventSentry v3.2 (v3.2.1.30) requires some additional information in addition to the release notes. Heartbeat Monitoring (Agent Status) By default, the EventSentry Heartbeat...
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Perfect hardware for a TV-based dashboard
Dashboards are a great way to visualize large amounts of information in a concise matter. In IT we usually display various types of network data from a monitoring software, but dashboards are used in...
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