This management pack allows security groups in Active Directory to be used to discover classes in Operations Manager 2007. For example if you already have your servers divied into security groups in Active Directory you can use populate classes from those groups and use the same in Operations Manager 2007 for targeting.This management pack needs to be adapt to your environment before you can use it. I recommend you to do that in the Authoring Console.

The management pack includes two classes, Contoso.GRP2CL.Fileservers and Contoso.GRP2CL.AppServers. Both these classes have one discovery rule each. The discover rules use script to check if the local machine is member of a specified security group in Active Directory. If they are, they create a instance of the class. The LDAP path is configure in the script. You should also change the discovery schedule, default time is every two minute.

The management pack also includes two state views to show which machines that are in the classes.

Every two minute it runs a script on all windows servers to see if they are member of a security group in Active Directory. If they are, a instance of the class is created.

Download the package here. Please note that this is a sample/idea, make sure to test and review it in a testenvironment.

I have written a script to show an idea how to get notification based on keywords. I have a power shell script that checks new alerts for the keyword and sends notification. This is occurs outside of the Ops Mgr console, so you will not see this under recipients or subscriptions in the console. The power shell scripts get both keywords and recipients from a configuration file. After a notification is sent the custom field 1 is updated on the alert, so the script will not send multiple notification for the same alert.

You can modify this script to include more attributs from an alert, with default settings it is only searching the alert description.

All information is included in the readme file.

Download the package here.