Group Policies provide centralized management and configuration of your Pulseway Agent configuration. Group Policies work on computer groups and they overwrite the configuration of all computers in the group.

Group Policies are commonly used in enterprise environments to quickly configure new computers and to ease the configuration update process. Once a Group Policy has been created, all computers will automatically update their configuration based on the policy overrides. Additionally, whenever a group policy gets changed, all computers in the group will receive the updated policy applying the new overrides immediately.

Pulseway groups are created dynamically as systems join them and they are automatically removed when the last system leaves the group. You can configure Pulseway Group Policies from the WebApp under the Systems -> Group Policies page.

You’ll be presented with a new screen with a list the Pulseway groups for the systems registered under your account and an indicator if the group has a policy or not.

Click on a group to create or edit the policy and you’ll be presented with a list of available configuration overrides:

Most policy settings have three states:

If you would like to remove a Group Policy, select it from Group Policies list and then click on Remove Policy button.

After you have configured your policy you can export it into a file for backup purposes. You can do so by selecting the policy from Group Policies list and then clicking on the Export Policy button. This will download the configuration export file to your computer.
An exported Group Policy can be used to import it on other accounts, to copy a policy to a different group and to restore a backup copy of a policy.

If you would like to import an exported Group Policy you need to have the exported *.pcmgp file on your local computer or in a network path. You can then start the import process from Group Policies page by clicking on the Import Policy button and selecting the previously exported *.pcmgp file followed by the groups on which you want to apply the policy.
Note: If you import a Group Policy over a group with an existing policy, will cause the existing policy to be overwritten.

Monitoring event logs for problems is an easy way to identify a problem before turns into something irreversible. In order to configure this you will need to open the Pulseway WebApp -> System -> Group Policies -> Notifications -> Event Log and simply add a new filter

Here is an example of a NIC event monitoring:

Syslog is a standard for computer data logging. It separates the software that generates messages from the system that stores them and the software that reports and analyzes them.

You may choose to receive a status report containing one or more of the following:

Note: Pulseway notifications will be sent even if the Syslog server is inaccessible.

PagerDuty is an alarm aggregation and dispatching service for system administrators and support teams. It collects alerts from your monitoring tools, gives you an overall view of all of your monitoring alarms, and alerts an on duty engineer if there's a problem.

In order to be able to forward notifications to PagerDuty, you must have a service key.

Steps on creating a PagerDuty service:

Zendesk is a SaaS suite that offers help desk ticketing, issue tracking, and customer service support.

Zendesk Configuration:

Account:

Settings:

Getting a ZenDesk API Token: