Settings Node in Essentials

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04/14/2011

Applies To: System Center Essentials 2010

Use the Settings node of the Essentials 2010 console Administration pane to perform the post-installation configuration of the Essentials management server and agent-managed computers. These product-wide settings are also referred to as global management settings.

Note

For information about overriding settings for the Essentials management server and agent-managed computers, see Device Management Node in Essentials.

Agent Heartbeat

Use the Agent Heartbeat setting to configure how often agent-managed computers send a heartbeat to their Essentials management server. A heartbeat is a periodic pulse from an agent to its Essentials management server that contains information related to the health of the agent.

Administration Account

Use the Administration Account setting to change the Essentials 2010 administration account.

Alerts

Use the Alerts setting to create, edit, and classify Essentials 2010 alerts into various states and define the behavior associated with each state.

Database Grooming

Grooming helps maintain the performance of the Essentials 2010 database by managing its size through the deletion of unnecessary records. Use the Management Group General Database Grooming setting to specify when record types, such as Resolved Alerts, are deleted from the Essentials 2010 database. The default grooming setting for all record types is for data older than 7 days.

Privacy

Use the Privacy settings to perform the following actions:

Enable or disable participation in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).
Enable or disable sending operational data reports to Microsoft.
Configure sending error reports for Essentials 2010 to Microsoft.
Configure what information is included in error reports sent to Microsoft.

Reporting

If Essentials 2010 Reporting is installed, use the Reporting setting to change the path to the reporting server.

Users

Use the Users settings to add or remove user accounts or groups that control user accounts that are eligible to be Essentials 2010 administrators.

Note

The user account for an Essentials administrator must be a member of an Active Directory Domain Services group in the list.

Recommended Management Packs

Use the Recommended Management Packs setting to configure Essentials 2010 to discover and notify you about updates to management packs that monitor selected applications in your environment.

Server Heartbeat

Use the Server Heartbeat setting to configure the number of missed heartbeats the Essentials management server can allow from an agent-managed computer before the state of the computer is changed to critical.

Server Security

Use the Server Security setting to configure whether agents installed by using MOMAgent.msi will be rejected, displayed in Pending Management for review, or automatically approved.

Server Computer Discovery

Use the Server Computer Discovery setting to configure if and when the Essentials management server should automatically scan for new computers in the domain by using Active Directory Domain Services.

Server Daily Health Report

Use the Server Daily Health Report setting to configure whether and how the Daily Health Report should be e-mailed on a daily basis. To send the report to multiple subscribers, set up an e-mail distribution list containing the desired subscribers and use that distribution list as the subscriber.

Update Management Proxy Server

Use the Proxy Server setting to configure whether Essentials 2010 Update Management should use a proxy server to connect to the Internet and what that proxy server's settings should be.

Update Management Products and Classifications

Use the Products and Classifications setting to specify for which Microsoft products Essentials 2010 Update Management should download updates, and the types of updates that should be downloaded.

Update Management Update Files and Languages

Use the Files and Languages setting to specify the languages for which you want updates downloaded and to specify whether you want update files to be stored locally or on Microsoft Update.

Update Management Synchronization Schedule

Use the Synchronization Schedule setting to configure how and when Essentials 2010 Update Management should be synchronized with Microsoft Update to keep the list of available updates current.

Update Management Auto-Approvals

Use the Auto-Approvals settings to configure how and when to approve updates, how to approve revisions to released updates, and to automatically approve updates to Essentials 2010.

Update Management Maintenance

Use the Maintenance settings to configure scheduled maintenance for the updates database and for updates packages, to index or re-index the updates database, and to remove files that Essentials 2010 is no longer using.