{"id":134,"date":"2007-02-07T22:16:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T20:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2007-02-07T22:18:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T20:18:48","slug":"detailed-notification-without-notification-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Detailed Notification without notification workflow."},"content":{"rendered":"

Your IT department presumably\u00c2\u00a0includes a number of team and roles. None of them want to get alert notification about machines or services that they do not administrate. If you want to setup a more detailed notification within your MOM environment I would recommend you to use MOM notification workflow. There is only one thing, MOM notification workflow does not work on SQL 2005. If your OnePoint database is running on a SQL 2005 machine you can\u00c2\u00b4t use MOM notification workflow.<\/p>\n

But :)\u00c2\u00a0There is another way to setup detailed notification. It takes a little more planning but it will work.<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a new rule group, name it something suitable like “Notification – All Critical Alerts”<\/li>\n
  2. Associate it with a computer group, for example “Microsoft Windows 2003 Servers”<\/li>\n
  3. Create a new alert rule in your new rule group
    \nAlert Criteria: of severity = Critical
    \nResponses: Send a notification to a notification group<\/li>\n
  4. Commit Configuration Changes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So what have we done? We have a rule that will send a notification on any alert that have severity critical. This rule is associated with a computer group including all Windows 2003 servers, so it will only be alerts with severity critical from a machine running Windows 2003 server. How can we include management packs then?<\/p>\n

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    1. open properties for your new alert rule and click the alert criteria tab<\/li>\n
    2. check the “only match alerts generated by rules in the following group:” and click “Browse”<\/li>\n
    3. choose a management pack, for example Active Directory, click ok and then ok to close the properties window<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      What have we now done? We have added one more criterias to our alert rule, now a alert must be critical and come from a Windows 2003 server and be generated from the Active Directory management pack.<\/p>\n