Management event types
These are the event types related to managing devices and users you can see in Sophos Central.
Depending on the features included in your license, you may see all or some of the following event types:
Product Updates
Event type |
Severity |
Action required? |
---|---|---|
Computer or server out of date |
Medium |
Yes |
Update succeeded |
Low |
No |
Update failed |
Low |
No |
Reboot recommended |
Low |
No |
Reboot required |
Medium |
Yes |
Policy Violations
Event type |
Severity |
Action required? |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
Policy non-compliance |
Medium |
Yes |
An alert will be displayed on the Alerts page if a computer remains non-compliant for more than two hours. |
Policy in compliance |
Low |
No |
|
Real-time protection disabled |
High |
Yes |
An alert will be displayed on the Alerts page if real-time protection has been disabled for a computer for more than 2.5 hours. |
Real-time protection re-enabled |
Low |
No |
Protection Issues
Event type |
Severity |
Action required? |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
New computer or server registered |
Low |
No |
|
Computer or server re-protected |
Low |
No |
|
New computer or server protected |
Low |
No |
|
Failed to protect computer or server |
High |
Yes |
A computer has started installation of the agent software but has not become protected for one hour. |
Error reported |
Low |
No |
|
Scan completion |
Low |
No |
|
New logins added |
Low |
No |
|
New users added automatically |
Low |
No |
Duplicate devices
Sophos Central warns you if it detects duplicate devices. If devices have been cloned from an image they have the same ID. Duplicate IDs can cause management issues.
Event type |
Severity |
Action required? |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
Duplicate device detection |
Medium |
No |
An alert will appear on the Alerts page if a duplicate device is detected. Duplicated devices are re-registered with a new ID. |
Device de-duplicated |
Low |
Yes |
Check that the groups and policies for the de-duplicated devices are correct. |
Active Directory Synchronization
Event type |
Severity |
Action required? |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
Active Directory synchronization error |
High |
Yes |
An alert will appear on the Alerts page if an Active Directory synchronization error is not resolved automatically for more than one hour. |
Active Directory synchronization succeeded |
Low |
No |
|
Active Directory synchronization warning |
Medium |
No |