Thats correct - it is a tedious process and for groups but because the health service and the computer classes are unrelated you need to add both to the group manually. You are basically doing manually what Kevin does dynamically but Kevins way only works if you can populate the group dynamically based on name and that is not always possible. Good Luck - let us know how it goes. Cheers GrahamRegards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Thats correct - it is a tedious process and for groups but because the health service and the computer classes are unrelated you need to add both to the group manually. You are basically doing manually what Kevin does dynamically but Kevins way only works if you can populate the group dynamically based on name and that is not always possible. Good Luck - let us know how it goes. Graham, that worked great! Finally... we went a long time without getting heartbeat alerts.

Instead of adding to the thread I already had I figured I'd start a new one, and save everyone from having to read what's already been written there. In this blog by Kevin Holman it talks about how to configure a group for use with email alerts for specific groups and classes. I did something similar but found it doesn't work for heartbeat alerts. I created groups that use explicit members (screenshot below), he uses dynamic members, pointing to the computer's NetBIOS name. According to the blog, I need to add the Health Service Watcher, to get the heartbeat alerts. I would prefer to leave my Explicit Members and then add the Health Service Watcher. But I don't see how to add that, using the instructions from the blog. I'd rather not use his method of using the NetBIOS names, because I have close to a dozen groups already created using Explicit Members for the server names. How can I use my method and add the Health Service Watcher?

Hi In Add \ Remove objects, add health service watchers that are associated with the windows objects that are already there. You would need to explicitly add each health service (you can't just say, add all health service watchers of the windows objects already there - that is why Kevin went for the dynamic approach). Hope it makes sense. Cheers GrahamRegards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Try the group with this as member 1. HealthServerWatcherGroup/Microsoft.systemCenter.agentwatcherGroup 2. HealthServerWatcherGroup/Microsoft.systemCenter.CollectionManagementServerGroup Roger

Hi In Add \ Remove objects, add health service watchers that are associated with the windows objects that are already there. You would need to explicitly add each health service (you can't just say, add all health service watchers of the windows objects already there - that is why Kevin went for the dynamic approach). Hope it makes sense. Cheers Graham Regards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/ So I would do this? - click on Add/Remove - under the "Search for" drop-down pick "Health Service Watcher" - in Filter type the name of a server that I have for that group and click Search. Repeat that for each server in the group? Ok, that's a little time consuming, but I'm guessing it's quicker than starting over completely and using Kevin's method. I'll give that a try and post back here.

Thats correct - it is a tedious process and for groups but because the health service and the computer classes are unrelated you need to add both to the group manually. You are basically doing manually what Kevin does dynamically but Kevins way only works if you can populate the group dynamically based on name and that is not always possible. Good Luck - let us know how it goes. Cheers GrahamRegards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Hi, About creating a group based on Health Service Watcher, please also refer to following posts: OpsMgr 2007: Monitoring Health Service Availability http://blogs.technet.com/b/smsandmom/archive/2008/03/25/opsmgr-2007-monitoring-health-service-availability.aspx Creating a Group of Windows Computer and Health Service Watcher Objects http://blogs.technet.com/b/jimmyharper/archive/2012/03/20/creating-a-group-of-windows-computer-and-health-service-watcher-objects.aspx Another post about how to create a group of Windows Computer and associated Health Service Watcher objects http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonathanalmquist/archive/2010/10/22/another-post-about-how-to-create-a-group-of-windows-computer-and-associated-health-service-watcher-objects.aspx Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li TechNet Community Support