Event ID 2004 Resource Exhaustion Diagnosis Events

Description

In this article, I am going to explain about Event ID 2004 Resource Exhaustion Diagnosis Events and how to configure or enable alert mail for this event. The Event ID 2004 falls under the category of Resource Exhaustion Detector component of Windows Resource Exhaustion Detection and Resolution (RADAR), it identifies the top three memory consuming programs and warns you when the system commit charge reaches a critical level.

Summary

Event ID 2004 Log Source

Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Resource-Exhaustion-Detector
Date:          04/12/2013 3:17:33 PM
Event ID:      2004
Task Category: Resource Exhaustion Diagnosis Events
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Events related to exhaustion of system commit limit (virtual memory).
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      myPC.myDomain.local
Description:
Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: sqlservr.exe (1956) consumed 729833472 bytes, devenv.exe (3896) consumed 404164608 bytes, and w3wp.exe (2516) consumed 240144384 bytes.

Steps to Configure Alert Notification mail for Event ID 2004

1. Open the Event Viewer MMC by running the command eventvwr.msc.
2. Expand the node Windows Logs, and select System
3. Search and and select the Event 2004, right-click on the event entry and click Attach Task To This Event..

Event ID 2004 Resource Exhaustion Diagnosis Events

4. Type the description like ‘This is a warning alert message for high memory usage on the following programs’ and click Next

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5. Select Send an e-mail option and click Next.

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6.Go to Action -> Send an e-mail section, type the From and To Address and SMTP Server address for your Mail Server and click Next.

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7. Now click the Finish button to complete Alert Mail Notification for the Event ID 2004

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Thanks,
Morgan
Software Developr

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