You can create alerts in Windows 2000 using the Sysmon tool.

To create an alert, use the following steps:

1.	Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Performance (or click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, click Administrative Tools, and then click Performance).
2.	After the Performance tool starts, performance logs and alerts should be displayed in the left pane.
3.	Double-click Performance Logs and Alerts.
4.	Click Alerts, and then right-click in the right-hand pane.
5.	Click New Alert Settings, type a name for the alert, and then click OK.
6.	You can now edit the properties of the new alert (for example, you can add a comment to the alert, for identification purposes).
7.	Add the counters that you want to monitor by clicking Add. NOTE: If the counters for the computer you want to create the alert for are not displayed, type the name of the computer, preceded by two backslashes (for example, \\computername) in the box in the Select counters from Computer section. If you have the proper permissions, the counters are displayed.
8.	After you select the counter(s) you want to monitor, close the Add Counters window.
9.	Choose how often you want the data to be sampled and when you want to receive an alert. You can specify a separate threshold for each counter. Depending on the counter, this is a percentage (for example, over 50 percent for %Processor Utilization) or an amount (for example, under 2 MB (2048000) for Memory\AvailableBytes).
10.	On the Action tab, click the action you want performed after the threshold is reached: a. Log an entry in the Application Event Log b. Send a Network Message to c. Start a Performance data Log d. Run this program
11.	Click the Schedule tab, and then select a schedule for the alert: a. Under Start scan, select a time in the At: time box. b. Under Stop scan, select an interval in the After: interval box. c. Under When an alert scan finishes, click to select the Start a new scan check box.
12.	Click OK. You have created an alert.

You can create several alerts to monitor different counters on different computers. You can configure each computer to handle the alert in a different manner, depending on your needs. When you create and use alerts, the following services must be running on the computers involved so that events are recorded and alerts are sent:

•	You should run the Alerter and Messenger services on the computer(s) performing the monitoring.
•	You should run the Messenger service on the computers that receive messages.
•	The Alerter service is started by default on Windows 2000 Server but is not in Windows 2000 Professional.
•	The Messenger service is started by default.

If you have problems connecting to another computer to start monitoring, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: