Overview

This event monitor connects to Windows Terminal Services (also known as Remote Desktop) on the systems that you select and verifies that incoming requests are being accepted.

Use Cases

• Keeping tabs on the number of active sessions detected

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if Windows Terminal Services are not available

Use this option to alert if the event monitor cannot connect to the network device.

Alert if the number of sessions exceeds a specified number

Use this option to get alerted based on the number of active sessions detected on the network device.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if a user other than those listed (permitted) is found to have a session

With this option, you can specify a list of user names and get alerts if any other user is found to have an active session.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if any of these users (banned) are found to have a session

With this option, you can specify a list of user names and get alerts if any of them are found to have an active session.

Authentication and Security

The account used to monitor this device must be a member of Distributed COM Users group.

Protocols

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Session Count	The number of sessions open.

Sample Output

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.