Show Status of the last Review Activity (with a pinch of Orchestrator magic)There has been a number of questions about the command notification channel in Technet forums. Here is a example how to configure a command notification channel, a subscriber for the channel and a subscription. This example configure a command notification channel to run a vbscript. The vbscript echo a time stamp and the alertname to a local file.
1. Go to Administration/Notification/Channels and create a new command notification channel. For example
Channel name: Contoso Command Notification Channel
Full path of the command file: C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
Command line paramters: /c C:\logfile.vbs $Data/Context/DataItem/AlertName$
Startup folder for the command line: C:\
2. Go to Subscribers and create a new subscriber
Subscriber name: Contoso Command Line Subscriber (note that you do not need to select a AD user)
Schedule: Always send notification
Addresses: Added a new address
-Address name: Contoso Command Address
-Channel type: Command
-Command Channel: Contoso Command Notification Channel
-Delivery address for the selected channel: I just left this with default, something about sip: but it resultet in a blank field, so just leave it
-Schedule: Always send notification
3. Goto Subscriptions and add a new subscription, for example
Name: Contoso Command Line Subscription
Criteria: with a specific resolution state: new(0) and closed (255)
Subscribers: Contoso Command Line Subscriber
Channel: Contoso Command Notification Channel
Summary: Make sure the channel is enabled
Thats it, and the logfile.vbs looks like:
' ******************************************
' GET PARAMETERS INTO SCRIPT
' ******************************************
strAlert = Wscript.Arguments.Item(0)
‘ ******************************************
‘ LOG TO FILE (DATE,TIME,TO,ALERT NAME,STATE
‘ ******************************************
Dim Stuff, myFSO, WriteStuff, dateStamp
strdateStamp = Date()
strTimeStamp = Time()
‘Write information to Text File
Stuff = strDateStamp & “,” & strTimeStamp & “,” & strAlert
Set myFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
Set WriteStuff = myFSO.OpenTextFile(“opsmgr_notification_logfile.txt”, 8, True)
WriteStuff.WriteLine(Stuff)
WriteStuff.Close
More info about command notification channel here.
Hi, thanks for reading my blog. Do you want Ops Mgr to write the alert to a logfile, so it like a logfile for Ops Mgr? That you can do with a subscription, take a look at http://contoso.se/blog/?p=860
Hi Anders,
does SCOM have capability to write the alerts in logfile? if so can you please let me know the instruction.
Thanks,
Hamendra
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Hi, take a look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440889.aspx , it will show you how to setup notification in Ops Mgr.
Hi Anders,
We have installed trial version of SCOM 2007 monitoring tool for Biztalk. Whenever orchestration suspended, we are getting alert in Ops manager console. But alerts have not been automatically forward to E-mail. Every time we have to manually forward the alert to “E-mail by using Forward to–> operations manager Internal Connector”. Could you please advise how to configure alert being automatically forward to E-mail.
Please let me know, if you need more clarification.
Thanks and regards,
-Gopal
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Hi, see if this one can help you http://contoso.se/blog/?p=265
Hi,
I tried your example and it work. But, I would like to get the recipient of the notification.
I use “$Data/Recipients/To/Address/Address$” and it always content the string “address”.
Do you know a way to get the recipient or subscriber name?
or the TO in your vbs comment:
‘ LOG TO FILE (DATE,TIME,TO,ALERT NAME,STATE
any ideas?
Yes it does work : I run the following from the command line
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\smsapp\sendsms.bat ” Test”
If I create a BAT which starts command shell and from there if I execute the c:\smsapp\sendsms.bat ” Test” , It works too.
If you run the command manually, does it work? Try create a BAT file that will start a commnd prompt, cmd.exe, and then sends the SMS.
I do have a batch file which send sms via Gateway. As mentioned in the post I have done the config as below but notification doesnt happen. An ideas?
Full path of the command line : c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
Command line param : /c c:\smsapp\sendsms.cmd “$Data/Context/DataItem/AlertName$”
Start up folder : C:\smsapp
I exactly implemented the same config, it doesnot work.even when I change the command line parameters to something simple as /c ipconfig>c:\test.txt it write a text file,it doesnot work
However when I manually enter
C:\windows\system32\cscript.exe /c C:\sms.vbs test
It works.
What could be wrong.I am pretty new to SCOM
Thanks
Any idea why I’m getting “Subscript out of range” when I try to run the vbs manually?
Have some a Idea how yan I open the internet explorer and give the Alert Content to defined places in the URL. I need somthin easy for our Helpdesk to open Tickets for 2nd Level manually but without Mail and any past an copy.
Meanwhile I found the problem (but no solution :d). I added some logging into my vbs code. I am using AT commands to send an SMS, more specific the sendkey method. When I ask the vbs to create a txt file after each line of code (example: cmd.txt, telnet.txt, sms.txt), the script creates this txt files.
However, when you execute manually the VBS file, the focus is within the cmd / telnet session and writes the sended keys. But what happens in SCOM ? Where are the keys send to ? I guess not to the activated cmd/telnet. That’s my problem, now finding the solution …
Hereby the script I used:
Set oShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
oShell.run”cmd.exe”
WScript.Sleep 500
oShell.SendKeys”telnet 10.1.1.208 5000″
oShell.SendKeys(“{Enter}”)
WScript.Sleep 1000
oShell.SendKeys”admin”
oShell.SendKeys(“{Enter}”)
WScript.Sleep 1000
oShell.SendKeys”admin”
oShell.SendKeys(“{Enter}”)
WScript.Sleep 1000
oShell.SendKeys”AT”
oShell.Sendkeys (“{ENTER}”)
WScript.Sleep 5000
oshell.SendKeys “AT” & Chr(13)
WScript.Sleep 10000
oShell.SendKeys “AT” & (“{+}”) & “CMGS” & (“{=}”) & “+xxxxxxxx”
WScript.Sleep 10000
oShell.SendKeys “{Enter}”
WScript.Sleep 10000
oShell.SendKeys “test scom”
WScript.Sleep 10000
oShell.SendKeys “^(Z)”
WScript.Sleep 15000
oShell.run”taskkill /F /IM telnet.exe”
WScript.Sleep 5000
Wscript.Quit
try add the cscript.exe as the command starting sms.vbs. You can see in my example how I did with a vbs file from a notification channel.
I exactly implemented the same config, when I change the command line parameters to /c ipconfig>c:\test.txt it write a text file, but when I change the command line paramaters to /c C:\sms.vbs it doesn’t do anything at all, however when I manually enter
C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c C:\sms.vbs
it works … any idea ?
the RMS, and outside of Ops Mgr.
Where does the executable or script reside? In the RMS or MS or Gateway?
I think you need to use “” around the paramter, for example “$Data/Context/DataItem/AlertDescription$”
This script works great…except when I run it, it only takes the first word from the Alert?
It appears as though the following detects a space in the variable…which causes it to only log the single word to the log file…has anybody else seen this behaviour?
Wscript.Arguments.Item(0)
You could try C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe as command and then C:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe C:\PutScriptMode.ps1 as parameter.
Hi Anders,
How can i get this to run a powershell script? I can get your VBscript to run but not powershell.
i’ve got
C:\Windows\sytem32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe in the full path of command
then
C:\PutNodeInPatchMaint.ps1 in the Paramters
and
C:\in startup folder but the powershell script never get executed.
if i run
C:\Windows\sytem32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe c:\PutNodeInPatchMaint.ps1
the script works so i know the script is ok.
any ideas?
If anyone is interested, I have a blog enter on how to ‘Forward Ops Mgr Alerts via an SNMP Trap’ via the Command Notification in SP1 & R2.
http://systemcenterspartan.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/forwarding-opsmgr-alerts-snmp/
Cheers,
System Center Spartan