8.0 General Knowledge Scripts

The General category provides Knowledge Scripts for generalized monitoring tasks that can be applied to almost any application.

From the Knowledge Script view of Control Center, you can access more information about any NetIQ-supported Knowledge Script by selecting it and clicking Help. In the Operator Console, click any Knowledge Script in the Knowledge Script pane and press F1.

Knowledge Script

What It Does

ADAuthentication

Monitors login time and the time required to read a property value of an object on an Active Directory server.

AsciiLog

Monitors ASCII text files for specific strings and messages logged since the last monitoring interval.

AsciiLogRX

Monitors an ASCII text file for specific strings and messages, as defined by regular expressions, logged since the last monitoring interval.

ConfigMachineDown

Loads computer-specific parameters to a local monitored computer so the MachineDownLR script, running on a group, can get the parameters required for each computer where it runs.

Counter

Monitors any System Monitor performance counter.

CounterCorrelate

Monitors thresholds for any pair of System Monitor performance counters.

EventLog

Monitors and filters information in the Windows event logs based on criteria you define.

EventLogRX

Monitors the Windows event logs for new entries matching the filter criteria you define using regular expressions.

MachineDown

Checks whether the target machine you run the script on can communicate with one or more specified Windows computers.

MachineDownLR

Using parameters planted locally by the ConfigMachineDown Knowledge Script, runs on a group of computers to check whether each computer can communicate with one or more specified Windows computers.

MissingEvent

Determines whether a Windows event log does not contain an entry matching your search criteria.

PingMachine

Checks the availability of any computers that reply to ICMP Echo requests (ping command).

Report_MachineAvailability

Generates a report about the availability of computers.

Report_PingMachine

Generates a report about the availability of computers or other machines that reply to ICMP Echo requests.

Report_ServiceChange

Generates a report about changes to the status and start-type of discovered services.

Report_ServiceDown

Generates a report about the up/down status of discovered services.

Report_ServiceHung

Generates a report about discovered services in the Start-Pending, Stop-Pending, Continue-Pending, or Pause-Pending state.

ServiceChange

Detects any changes to the status and start type of a discovered service.

ServiceDown

Determines whether a discovered service is running.

ServiceHung

Determines whether a discovered service is hung.

ShortEventLog

Monitors and filters information in the Windows event logs based on criteria you specify.

SNMPGet

Monitors SNMP activity and allows you to check SNMP MIB variable values.

WMICounter

Monitors any WMI object property.