SMS: Description and Usage of Smgenie.exe (Event Generator) (188054)

SUMMARY

Smgenie.exe, available in the Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit, generates events that simulate actual system and application events. The purpose of SMGENIE is to test the SNMP Event to Trap Translator, which converts specified events to SNMP traps when the events are written to the Windows NT Event log.

After SMGENIE (which runs on computers with either Alpha or Intel-based processors) is started, the SMGENIE window appears on your screen.

MORE INFORMATION

After Systems Management Server is installed and the SNMP components are set up, you can configure the SNMP Event to Trap Translator with the events to translate. For detailed information about the configuration process, see the SMS 1.2 Administrator's Guide. Then, use SMGENIE to generate events to the Windows NT Event log. Events that have been set in the SNMP Event to Trap Translator will be translated into traps and sent to the site server.

To Generate Events with SMGENIE

Select an event log from the Event Logs box.
Select an event source from the Event Sources box.

The events for the selected event source are displayed in the list at the top of the window. The number of events available in the event source are displayed in the Event Count box. You can use the Auto search box to locate an event source among all the Event logs. In the Auto search box, type the name of a source.
Select events by scrolling through the list and clicking on them.

You can use SHIFT + CLICK and CTRL + CLICK combinations to select ranges and multiple events. The number of selected events is shown in the lower-right status bar of the window.
You can change the default substring value. The default is TEST-STRING.

The substring is placed into each event wherever there is a percent sign (%) followed by a number. (In actual Windows NT event generation, subsequent numbers denote different strings. In SMGENIE, the substring is used regardless of the number following the percent sign.)
Generate events in either of the following two ways:
- Click Generate Events.
- In the Auto generate box, specify integers for Multiples and Interval In Seconds, then select Auto Generate. Multiples specifies how many events to generate for each selected event, and Interval In Seconds specifies the time to elapse between each event, repeating until Auto Generate is no longer selected.
  
  For example, if Winlogon is the event source, events 1001 and 1002 are selected, and the default settings are used, selecting Auto Generate generates one of each event every five seconds. Two events are logged in the Windows NT event log every five seconds -- one for event 1001 and one for event 1002.
  
  The number of events generated is shown in the lower-left status bar.