Configuring Windows Event Log

Enter the event log name for which you want to create a filter. For example, you can enter Microsoft-Windows-WinRM/Operational.

Select one of the following options:

• Do not forward Windows Events to Event Manager
• Forward all Windows Events to Event Manager
• Forward filtered Windows Events to Event Manager

Enter a unique name that represents the event filter, and follows these rules:

• The filter name cannot exceed 127 characters.
• The filter name cannot use the following format: user@domain.com. If this format is used for the filter name, the filter fails to filter events.

Select one of the following options:

• Report the number of events that match the filter criteria during each collection period - If you select this option, the PATROL Agent monitors the number of events that match the filter criteria during each collection cycle. Depending on which event types the filter monitors, the following parameters are used to report this data:
  • Number of Error Events (ELMError)
  • Number of Failure Audit Events (ELMFailureAudit)
  • Number of Information Events (ELMInformation)
  • Number of Other Type Events (ELMOtherTypes)
  • Number of Events (ELMStatus)
  • Number of Success Audit Events (ELMSuccessAudit)
  • Number of Warning Events (ELMWarning)
• Notify immediately when an event matches the filter criteria - If you select this option, the PATROL Agent immediately changes a parameter to an alarm state when an event matches the filter criteria.

  Depending on which event types the filter monitors, the following parameters are displayed in an alarm state when an event matches the filter:

  • Notifications of Error Events (ELMErrorNotification)
  • Notifications of Failure Audit Events (ELMFailureAuditNotification)
  • Notifications of Warning Events (ELMWarningNotification)
  • Notifications of Windows Events (ELMNotification)
    (This parameter is active only when you have selected the Notify immediately when an event matches the filter criteria option in the Report/Notify field and the Consolidate the event types when reporting check box in the Event Type Details section.)

Select this check box to disable case sensitivity for the source filtering.

You can specify whether to make filter comparisons in a case-independent manner for the source, user, category, and string options of a Windows event filter. To disable case-independent comparisons for any of the options, ensure that the corresponding Disable Case Sensitivity check box while configuring windows event monitoring is cleared.

The /PSX_P4WinSrvs/PWK_PKMforMSWinOS_config/EventLogMonitoring/eventlog/EventFilters/filter/FilterDisableCase configuration variable stores information about case-sensitivity of the event filter options.

This variable has five bit values, depending upon case sensitivity, one bit corresponding to each of Source, User, Category, String, and Computer name, respectively. If any bit value is 1, a case-independent filter comparison is made for the corresponding field.

You can set this variable to either of the following values:

• 00000 = none checked (default)
• 11111 = all 5 categories checked
• A combination of 0s and 1s, depending on which of the 5 categories were checked

To disable case-sensitivity in the event filters, set the value of the FilterDisableCase configuration variable to 00000.

Select one of the following options:

• Include all event sources in the list
• Exclude all event sources in the list

Select one or more of the following event types to use in the filter for monitoring.

• Critical
• Error
• Warning
• Information
• Verbose
• Success_Audit
• Failure_Audit
• Others

Select this option if you want various types of events (for example, Warning, Information, Error) to be reported by using one parameter, ELMStatus (or ELMNotification if you configured to be notified immediately when an error occurs while defining the Report/Notify option).

If you want to have separate parameters for each event type that can raise alarms independently, clear this check box,

Click Add and add the windows events.

You can enter one or multiple IDs in the following ways:

• Single event ID. For example: 100
• Range of event IDs. For example: 100-120
• Regular expression. For example: 1[0-5]3

Comma-separated list of multiple event IDs is not supported. For example: 100,110,120

In the list of Windows events, beside a name, you also get a menu to edit, delete, or clone an event.

Select one of the following options:

• Include all event IDs in the list
• Exclude all event IDs in the list

Select this check box to annotate additional event data for the event in the annotation. You can display the annotations by placing the cursor over the graph data points.

Note: Restart the PATROL Agent to apply the changes.

Writes details about the events that occur to a parameter. Depending on which event types the filter monitors, the following parameters are used to report this data:

• EvRptOfError
• EvRptOfFailureAudit
• EvRptOfInformation
• EvRptOfStatus
• EvRptOfSuccessAudit
• EvRptOfWarning
• EVReportOfOtherTypes
• EvRptOfNotification: This parameter is active only when you have selected both of the following options:
  Notify immediately and consolidate event types.

Saves information about the event in the agent configuration variable RetainEventDescriptions so that you can use this information in recovery actions that you create.

For example, if you create a recovery action that generates an e-mail when the event filter alarms, you could include the event description in the e-mail. If you don’t use recovery actions or don’t plan to use them, deselect this option to limit use of the agent database space.

For more information, see Retained event descriptions.

Enables event consolidation under the conditions you specify. If X number of events (of any type) occur within X seconds or minutes, they are reported using one parameter.

Only one datapoint is used, but the datapoint annotation contains information about each of the events that occurred. For more information on event consolidation, see Event Type dialog box.

To return to the default setting (not reporting multiple events as one event and not consolidating events), enter 0 as the number of times that the event occurs.

By default, this value is set to 1.

Specify the number of seconds that must be used for reporting multiple events as a single event.

By default, this value is set to 0. The maximum accepted value for this field is 35791394 minutes.

Specify how you want to acknowledge the alarm raised by the event filter. You can specify one of the following values:

• automatic: If you specify automatic, the PATROL Agent acknowledges alarms and returns the filter to an OK state if the filter criteria are not met during the most recent collection cycle. In other words, if the events you are monitoring do not occur during the collection cycle, the event filter state is changed back to OK. With this option you are not actively monitoring for alarms, you might not notice when the monitored events occurs because any alarms will be reset during the next collection cycle if the monitored events do not re-occur.
  Note: If you select the Notify immediately when an event matches the filter criteria option, PATROL cannot acknowledge the alarm or return the filter to an OK state. PATROL keeps the filter in alarm until an operator manually acknowledges the alarm.
• filterName: If you specify the filter name, then PATROL changes the filter state from an alarm state to an OK state when the criteria of a second event filter are met. To use this option, you must create an event filter that monitors for the required event and that is configured to notify PATROL immediately when that filter criteria is met, and then specify the filter name in this field.

By default, this value is set to automatic.

In this section, click Add and add user names associated with the events that you want to monitor or exclude from monitoring.

Note: When you enter a user name that includes special characters that are used in regular expressions (such as $, a period (.), parenthesis (), or a slash (\)), you must escape each special character with a slash. For example, if the user name is $Smith, you must enter the user name as \$Smith. Event log filter fails to filter events generated with user-based filters entered with a user@domain.com format. Use just the user name (for example, Administrator) or the Domain\User format (e.g. CIVILWAR\Administrator).

Select one of the following options:

• Include all users in the list - Specifies that all of the users in the list are monitored by the event filter. Select this option when you only want to monitor specific users.
• Exclude all users in the list - Specifies that all the users except those in the list are monitored by the event filter. Select this option when you want to monitor all the users, except for a few specific users, which you want to exclude from the event filter.

Select this check box to disable case sensitivity for the filter comparisons.

Select one of the following options, as appropriate:

• Include all categories in the list - Specifies that all of the categories in the list are monitored by the event filter. Select this option when you only want to monitor specific categories.
• Exclude all categories in the list - Specifies that all the categories except those in the list are monitored by the event filter. Select this option when you want to monitor all the categories, except for a few specific categories, which you want to exclude from the event filter.

In this section, click Add and enter the string from event description associated with the events that you want to monitor.

When you are entering a string that includes special characters that are used in regular expressions, such as a dollar sign ($), a period (.), a parenthesis (), or a slash (), you must escape each special character with a slash. For example, if the string is $Error, you must enter the string as \$Error.

You can add multiple strings. In the list of strings, beside a name, you also get a menu to edit, delete, or clone a string.

In this section, click Add and enter the string from the event description associated with the events.

When you are entering a string that includes special characters that are used in regular expressions, such as a dollar sign ($), a period (.), a parenthesis (), or a slash (), you must escape each special character with a slash. For example, if the string is $Error, you must enter the string as \$Error.

You can add multiple strings. In the list of strings, beside a name, you also get a menu to edit, delete, or clone a string.

In this section, click Add and enter the computer names that are associated with the events that you want to monitor or exclude from monitoring.

You can add multiple computer names. In the list of computer names, beside a name, you also get a menu to edit, delete, or clone a name.

• Include all computers in the list - Specifies that all of the computers in the list are monitored by the event filter. Select this option when you only want to monitor computers.
• Exclude all computers in the list - Specifies that all the computers except those in the list are monitored by the event filter. Select this option when you want to monitor all the computers, except for a few specific computers, which you want to exclude from the event filter.

Note: Any modification made to the configuration requires you to restart the PATROL Agent. Only 20 combinations of sources and event IDs are supported.

Enter a comma-separated list of event sources.

Note: You must specify the event sources and IDs based on the filters that you have configured (using the List of Filters option) for the respective event log.

Enter comma-separated list of event IDs or event range.

For example: 100,1000-1010,500.