Formerly Known as Performance Status

The Computer Event Status  widget is useful when you want to monitor the status of Exchange servers, DNS, domain controllers, file servers or other business-critical applications.

However, you can use the widget to monitor the status of virtually anything, from IT-related work processes to CPU utilization on individual computers.

You use one widget per item that you want to monitor. Simply use multiple widgets to get a dashboard that lets you monitor the status of all the servers, applications, computers or work processes that are important to you.

If something performs well, the widget will be green . If something is wrong, the widget changes color to either yellow , orange  or red  depending on how many computers are affected by the problem. If there's a problem, the widget will also tell you exactly how many computers and locations are affected.

If you want status to refresh automatically, enable dashboard auto-update in the top right corner of the dashboard.

Set Up the Widget

It's your PerformanceGuard administrator who sets up the thresholds that define how many affected computers it takes before the widget changes color.

It's also your administrator who defines what you are able to monitor with the widget. Technically, your administrator sets up PerformanceGuard event rules to define this. Remember what an event is? It's a threshold violation, for example a response time that isn't acceptable. When an event happens, the widget looks at how many computers are affected by the event, and the widget then adjusts its color accordingly.

PerformanceGuard comes with a number of built-in event rules, so your administrator doesn't necessarily have to set up event rules of his own.

Set Up New Event Rules that You Can Use in the Widget

If the built-in event rules in PerformanceGuard don't cover your needs, you can set up your own event rules. See Manage Thresholds and Events.