Hi, I want to configure Notifications in SCOM 2007 R2 i have googled alot for step by step guide that how to do it but have found only for SCOM 2007 SP1. I am sure there are lots of changes between SP1 and R2. Please provide me step by step guide to configure notifications in R2. Regards,SKHATRI

Hi, Its there in OpsMgr R2 administrator and user guides. Following is the link, step by step, follow this and you will be good. In case of any issue/clarification please post here. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440890.aspx

Hi, Its there in OpsMgr R2 administrator and user guides. Following is the link, step by step, follow this and you will be good. In case of any issue/clarification please post here. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440890.aspx

Hi V, Thanks for your reply. I have already gone through the above article and configured the notifications. The problem is that it doesnt tell each thing in detail i.e. in the subscription criteria i am not able to understand that what to do in this condition. I have some questions about this that how to configure criteria if you have to accomplish the following. My client has following requirement Each AD administrator should receive only AD Notifications. Each Exchange Administrator should receive only Exchange Notification Each SQL Administrator should receive only SQL Notifications. Each Operating System Administrator should only recieve OS notifications If any notification which is not necessary to receive it should be removed from Notification. Please let me know how to do this. How to configure above notifications and if some one wants me to stop receive a specific alert for example there is an alert named over all essential services are not running and percentage commited memory is too high how to remove these notifications from the criteria. Regards, Salahuddin KhatriSKHATRI

Hi V, Thanks for your reply. I have already gone through the above article and configured the notifications. The problem is that it doesnt tell each thing in detail i.e. in the subscription criteria i am not able to understand that what to do in this condition. I have some questions about this that how to configure criteria if you have to accomplish the following. My client has following requirement Each AD administrator should receive only AD Notifications. Each Exchange Administrator should receive only Exchange Notification Each SQL Administrator should receive only SQL Notifications. Each Operating System Administrator should only recieve OS notifications If any notification which is not necessary to receive it should be removed from Notification. Please let me know how to do this. How to configure above notifications and if some one wants me to stop receive a specific alert for example there is an alert named over all essential services are not running and percentage commited memory is too high how to remove these notifications from the criteria. Regards, Salahuddin KhatriSKHATRI

Hi there. For the scenario you describe, where there are groups of users who should only receive notifications for specific types of alerts, when creating the subscription you would probably choose "Raised by any instance of a specific class" and then choose the appropriate class for the support teams, e.g. any class with Active Directory for the AD admins; any class with Exchange 200x for the Exchange admins; and class with SQL for the SQL admins; any class with Windows Server 200x Operating System, Logical Disk, etc for the OS admins. Hope this helps.Layne

Hi there. For the scenario you describe, where there are groups of users who should only receive notifications for specific types of alerts, when creating the subscription you would probably choose "Raised by any instance of a specific class" and then choose the appropriate class for the support teams, e.g. any class with Active Directory for the AD admins; any class with Exchange 200x for the Exchange admins; and class with SQL for the SQL admins; any class with Windows Server 200x Operating System, Logical Disk, etc for the OS admins. Hope this helps.Layne

Hi, Thanks for your reply. Let me access to the scom server tomorrow to see what could be done. How about that if i have selected a class of AD but after 2 days AD support guys told me that they dont want to recieve the specific AD alert via email. in this case how would i remove that alert from notification. Regards,SKHATRI

Hi, Thanks for your reply. Let me access to the scom server tomorrow to see what could be done. How about that if i have selected a class of AD but after 2 days AD support guys told me that they dont want to recieve the specific AD alert via email. in this case how would i remove that alert from notification. Regards,SKHATRI

You can use severities/priorities in the subscription criteria. So maybe the AD admins only want Critical alerts, or more specifically, all Critical alerts of Medium and High Priority. You can set this up easily, and usually is sufficient. Where it gets trickier is if the admins want some Critical alerts, but not all. If you're using R2 you have the option of adding another criteria to the subscription, "Created by specific rules or monitors". This lets you choose which rules and monitors will be included in the subscription. Of course, there may be hundreds of rules/monitors and you'd have to include all of them and leave out the ones the admins don't want to get. Hopefully this makes sense. Layne

You can use severities/priorities in the subscription criteria. So maybe the AD admins only want Critical alerts, or more specifically, all Critical alerts of Medium and High Priority. You can set this up easily, and usually is sufficient. Where it gets trickier is if the admins want some Critical alerts, but not all. If you're using R2 you have the option of adding another criteria to the subscription, "Created by specific rules or monitors". This lets you choose which rules and monitors will be included in the subscription. Of course, there may be hundreds of rules/monitors and you'd have to include all of them and leave out the ones the admins don't want to get. Hopefully this makes sense. Layne

Here is how I have configured my notifications in SCOM 2007 R2, requirements being: (1) Alerts to specific groups so that they can address the problem quickly (2) Avoid alert storm (3) Be able to figure out what rule/group/class created alerts Step 1: Create as needed channels. I have a bunch (eight to ten). An example below is ExchangeCritical Alerts related channel that will send message to messaging team and also instruct our Operations team to escalate off hours (notice I have ExchangeWarningSMTPChannel string in the e-mail message and subject has Escalate to Messaging AfterBusinessHours). Subject string--> $Data/Context/DataItem/ManagedEntityPath$: $Data/Context/DataItem/AlertName$:CRITICAL-TechOps Escalate To Messaging AfterBusinessHours e-mail message strings---> Last modified by: $Data/Context/DataItem/LastModifiedBy$ Last modified time: $Data/Context/DataItem/LastModifiedLocal$ Alert description: $Data/Context/DataItem/AlertDescription$ Resolution State: $Data/Context/DataItem/ResolutionStateName$ Alert view link: "$Target/Property[Type="Notification!Microsoft.SystemCenter.AlertNotificationSubscriptionServer"]/WebConsoleUrl$?DisplayMode=Pivot&AlertID=$UrlEncodeData/Context/DataItem/AlertId$" Notification subscription ID generating this message: $MPElement$ ExchangeWarningSMTPChannel:$Data/Context/DataItem/Custom10$ $Data/Context/DataItem/Severity$ (2) Then I have a subscription that has criteria: Severity=Critical Resolution State=New Instance of a specific class (this is where I picked anything with "Exchange") Likewise you can do channel for other severity and class. Hope this helps. Comments: I wish Microsoft folks reads this and grant us ability to create notification where we can put exclusions like send notifications that does not have specific strings. Hope this helps.

Here is how I have configured my notifications in SCOM 2007 R2, requirements being: (1) Alerts to specific groups so that they can address the problem quickly (2) Avoid alert storm (3) Be able to figure out what rule/group/class created alerts Step 1: Create as needed channels. I have a bunch (eight to ten). An example below is ExchangeCritical Alerts related channel that will send message to messaging team and also instruct our Operations team to escalate off hours (notice I have ExchangeWarningSMTPChannel string in the e-mail message and subject has Escalate to Messaging AfterBusinessHours). Subject string--> $Data/Context/DataItem/ManagedEntityPath$: $Data/Context/DataItem/AlertName$:CRITICAL-TechOps Escalate To Messaging AfterBusinessHours e-mail message strings---> Last modified by: $Data/Context/DataItem/LastModifiedBy$ Last modified time: $Data/Context/DataItem/LastModifiedLocal$ Alert description: $Data/Context/DataItem/AlertDescription$ Resolution State: $Data/Context/DataItem/ResolutionStateName$ Alert view link: "$Target/Property[Type="Notification!Microsoft.SystemCenter.AlertNotificationSubscriptionServer"]/WebConsoleUrl$?DisplayMode=Pivot&AlertID=$UrlEncodeData/Context/DataItem/AlertId$" Notification subscription ID generating this message: $MPElement$ ExchangeWarningSMTPChannel:$Data/Context/DataItem/Custom10$ $Data/Context/DataItem/Severity$ (2) Then I have a subscription that has criteria: Severity=Critical Resolution State=New Instance of a specific class (this is where I picked anything with "Exchange") Likewise you can do channel for other severity and class. Hope this helps. Comments: I wish Microsoft folks reads this and grant us ability to create notification where we can put exclusions like send notifications that does not have specific strings. Hope this helps.

"Comments: I wish Microsoft folks reads this and grant us ability to create notification where we can put exclusions like send notifications that does not have specific strings." Yes, it would be nice to be able to select alerts by management packs, e.g. All alerts generated by rules or monitors in the Exchanges 2007 MP. this is Exactly what we need!

"Comments: I wish Microsoft folks reads this and grant us ability to create notification where we can put exclusions like send notifications that does not have specific strings." Yes, it would be nice to be able to select alerts by management packs, e.g. All alerts generated by rules or monitors in the Exchanges 2007 MP.