Using OpsMgr Notifications in the real world - Part 1

re: Using OpsMgr Notifications in the real world - Part 1

Jeremy D Pavleck — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:59:50 GMT

To be completely honest, the creation of custom classes is really the only acceptable solution in my mind. Not only does it allow us to have the highest level of control, it lets us setup much more specific notification lists.

If you have a class called "Widget Application Error" and write events to it, then you can subscribe people just to those events.

At the current site they do do things a lot .. ahem.. different then is the norm, but it seems to be the only way I can make them happy.

Using powershell to create alerts is nice in theory, but the second anyone opens that notification inside the GUI it converts it to an 'all alerts' rule since the GUI can't handle it.

But alas, it seems like once again we hit upon the same thing at the same time - but you were faster on the blogging front :P

Nice work though, looking forward to the rest of the series.

Jeremy Pavleck

Pavleck.Net - SCOM & PowerShell

re: Using OpsMgr Notifications in the real world - Part 1

Derek du preez — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:30:10 GMT

It is unfortunate that you have not had time to do part 4 of your post. The section that will cover the custom classes. I have created a custom management pack along with custom classes. I populate these classes using my developed Connector. My next step would be to monitor these classes and generate alerts. And then create reports based on the data inserted over time into the classes. I have no idea how to do this. Would be nice if you could help me out.

Creating custom dynamic computer groups based on registry keys on agents

Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:09:50 GMT

I have had a few requests now for this, so I thought I would take the time to write up the process.  