Configuring Notifications - to include specific alerts from specific groups and classes

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re: Configuring Notifications - to include specific alerts from specific groups and classes

Elizabteh — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:26:43 GMT

Hello all!

I want to create a subscription that forwards to my connector (created via SCOM SDK) the alerts coming from a custom computer group I created and called "MyGroup".

In order to achieve this goal I completed these steps:

1) I created the connector via SDK

2) I created manually the subscription via the SCOM UI selecting only "MyGroup", the first option of Targets and checking all the checkboxes in the criteria

3) I exported in a XML file via SCOM SDK the subscription just created

...then I read the XML file and I noticed that it contains the criteria but does not mention any Computer Group (nor "MyGroup").

Now I need to understand how PROGRAMMATICALLY associate a specific subscription to a specific computer group.

Can some gentleman help me?

Thank you!

Bye

Lizzy

re: Configuring Notifications - to include specific alerts from specific groups and classes

Gus — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:24:17 GMT

Hi Kevin,

I tried to duplicate what you did above with no luck. I created a group and added the servers using the explicit method and I received no e-mails after i intentionally caused low disk alarms and heatbeat failures.

So I added them using the Dynamic method and received the same results no alerts.

Any ideas on what can be causing this?

re: Configuring Notifications - to include specific alerts from specific groups and classes

Gus — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:24:41 GMT

Hi Kevin,

So I added them using the Dynamic method and received the same results no alerts.

Do you have any ideas on what can be causing this?

re: Configuring Notifications - to include specific alerts from specific groups and classes

Vratix — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:19:00 GMT

Kevin, great post. I was wondering if you knew of a way to grapically see what classes/object fell under which in SCOM. This would greatly help me understand how to target subscriptions. You mentioned that most alerting and notifications are done targeting Windows Computer or a child of it. I've used the Add Component Wizard in the Distributed Applications designer tool, but it doesn't really help that much.

Thank you.

re: Configuring Notifications - to include specific alerts from specific groups and classes

Vratix — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:22:17 GMT

One more thing I would like to monitor only when a serer goes down and the logical disk space on a group of servers. So I created a group and placed the Health Service Watcher (Agent) and the C and D drives from the Windows Server 2003 logical disk class into a group for these servers and setup notifications. I haven't tested them yet but I wanted to make sure I was doing this correctly. Also the subscription was scoped to the group I created and to Health Service Watcher (Agent) and Windows Server 2003 Logical Disk Classes. Will this work?

re: Configuring Notifications - to include specific alerts from specific groups and classes

curtiss — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:01:27 GMT

i'm more concerned with getting *just* exchange alerts out to a certain distro. i can make a group of "production exchange servers" using Windows Server objects, but when i choose the Class for the notification subscription, can i just pick "exchange server role" or do i have to specify every single class with the word "exchange" in its name?

re: Exchange classes

kevinhol — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:29:26 GMT

I would recommend picking all the exchange classes - because workflows targeting specific exchange classes will likely only match a notification subscription when explicitly added.