Hi Kevin,

A thing about the Notification Channel format. Printing Priority and Severity does not necessarily translate into the user friendly string format. I expected like 'Low' or 'High'  to be printed for Priority or severity being 'Warning' or 'Error'. Instead when I add the following text into my channel format for Severity: $Data[Default='Not Present']/Context/DataItem/Severity$, I get 2 for error, 1 for Warning and 0 for Information. Same issue with Priority as well.

I want to know if this is by design or can we somehow translate the numbers into user friendly string format. It helps for our support engineers to prioritize their work.

Thank you,

Shahin

Hi Kevin, great post as always, I do have a question though and it is probably a stupid one. We have everything set up and working for notifications internally and we have 2 remote domains that send notifications in via Gateway servers. The internal notifications are fine but the external ones have the date set in American format. I did some reading and it was suggested that I should log on to the management server using the notification account but this would seem silly since the internal ones work fine.

The question is, do I have to set up a new notification account from each of the external domains and add them as a user in Exchange or can I use the internal notification account and distribute the credentials to the external Gateway servers? I'm just a bit unclear on the authentication across external domains.

Are there some restrictions who can or cannot view the hyperlinks with in the emails?

How are these configured, I have setup the Read-Only Operators, within the User Roles, however my users are still getting 403 errors?  My SCOM Admins open up the links without any problems at all.

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Hello Kevin,

I'm trying to configure the notifications alerts from SCOM 2012, but i keep getting the error "Client not authenticated".

I'm not using Exchange, i'm using an third part software smtp server just to relay to Office365 smtp server. I've configured everything right (RunAsAccount, RunAsProfile, Channels, Subscribers and Subscriptions).

Could you please help me on this one?

Kevin, I wonder why there is no option to subscribe for alerts associated with particular agent (path). Instead we need to create a group for bunch of objects for which we need subscriptions. This ends up in multiple group creation for multiple customers and finally a big mess. I'm currently using a powershell to notify based on path parameter but I like to have it as inbuilt feature. Please let me know if it makes sense...

Hi Kevin.

I want to send notifications using SCOM 365 office, configure the relay and configure notifications following your blog, but notifications do not work.

The error is: Notification subsystem failed to send notification over 'Smtp' protocol to 'user@domain.com'
Notification subsystem failed to send notification using device / server 'smtp.office365.com' over 'Smtp' protocol to 'user@domain.com'.

help me!
Thank you

Hi Kevin,
I have a subscriber to receive alerts between specified time (schedule time) for some particular services if they are stopped. I am wondering if other services also get this setting, that if other services stop, then alerts for these other services alert only during the schedule time and no alerts during unschedule time, which I do not want, the other services should be alerted all time, except the ones which are configured during schedule period

thanks,
Saleem

Is there an audit log for notifications in SCOM 2012? I am constantly hounded by users saying "I didn't get my email on the alert". In SCOM 2007 R2 I included myself on every email for this very reason. Very inefficient. Are there any improvements to report?

I'm thinking Kev's moved on....