Viewing system health events - Security Center 5.10

You can view system health events related to selected entities within a specified time range, using the Health history report.

What you should know

There are three severity levels of health events:

• Error
• Warning
• Information

Almost every entity in your system can generate health events. You can choose which health events to monitor by configuring the Health Monitor role. For information about selecting which health events to monitor in Config Tool, see the Security Center Administrator Guide.

For example, if an entity is experiencing issues, you can search for past health events that have occurred in relation to that entity. If you want to search if there were critical errors that happened in the system during the last week, you can filter you search only for errors, and set a time range.

NOTE: Health events also appear in the notification tray as system messages () as they occur in real time.

1. From the home page, open the Health history task.
2. Set up the query filters for your report. Enable one or more of the following filters:

   Event timestamp

   Define the time range for the query. The range can be defined for a specific period or for global time units, such as the previous week or the previous month.

   Health event

   Name of the health event.

   Health severity

   Severity level of the health event:

   • Information
   • Warning
   • Error

   Machine

   Select a computer that was having health issues to investigate.

   Observer entity

   The entity (role, server, unit, and so on) that reported the event.

   Show current health events

   Restrict the search to active health events. Only events that have been active for longer than the specified duration are listed in the report.

   NOTE: Dismissing an event from the Health history task or the System messages dialog box removes it from the list of active events.

   Source entity

   Source entity of the event.

   Source group

   Source entity group of the event. Usually a role or a unit.

3. Click Generate report.
   The health events of the selected entities are listed in the report pane.