Hi I want to create a new notification for an external application. The $$ should be interpreted as $$ and not as the variable $. Because sometimes I write $$ and it gets interpreted as variable and sometimes $$ gets interpreted as $$. But there's no "rule" how it gets interpreted. Do you have an idea to solve my problem? Here an example: In the notification i wrote: Company*+ !1000000001!: [$$ xyz $$] Service Type !1000000099!: [$$ Infrastructure Event $$] Details !1000000151!: [$$ $Data/Context/DataItem/AlertDescription$ $$] But in the notification I always get: Company*+ !1000000001!: [$ xyz $] Service Type !1000000099!: [$ Infrastructure Event $] Details !1000000151!: [$ The threshold for the Logical Disk\Avg. Disk sec/Transfer performance counter has been exceeded. $] Regards Dsi

Hi, SCOM uses .NET Regex expression syntax, and $$ Substitutes a literal "$". You could get more information about this: Regular expression support in System Center Operations Manager http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2702651/ Regular Expression Language - Quick Reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az24scfc.aspxAlex Zhao TechNet Community Support

The easy answer is: when you want $$ to show up in your text, you should write $$$$ in the notification. credits to alex above allthough i doubt it has something to do with regex, more just the escape char... Rob Korving http://jama00.wordpress.com/