Is this also how you can monitor services now? Wanna explain a little about this piece?
Nuzman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Farley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:55 AM Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Event Log Monitoring Question / Version 8 > > I am confused. Perhaps someone can explain to me how Windows Event Log > > monitoring is done without WhatsUp polling the server. > > We use a newer Microsoft API called WMI to do this. This API comes built > into Win2K and XP, it must be installed on NT 4.0. > > Once WUG establishes a connection to the WMI component on the remote host > initially, the log entries are sent to WUG by the WMI component on the > remote server as they occur. WUG just listens for them to arrive. > > We do maintain an open TCP connection to the remote host, but we don't have > to actively poll. > > --Tim Farley > IPSWITCH > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
