I have a situation and need to know the best way i could accomplish this: There are 6 Application servers that we have and all of them run a specific service named ' Appserver' If Appserver service is up and running on even 1 of the servers the application has no issue. But if the service is stopped on all teh servers we wont be able to work with that application. I need to be alerted when all the servers have the service as stooped and it should turn critical. I do not need the critical state to happen if even 1 of the servers have the service running. How could we accomplish it : Aggegrate Rollup ??

Hi! Try Distributed Applications. Here's a great posting series (4 parts) by Marnix Wolf

In Distributed appp is it not if one of the thinks that is down will cause the overall distributed app to show as down.

You may choose the "best state of any member" policy for the DA Health Rollup monitor, so it will turn red only if all of your apps are down.

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Indeed you can define best of all or worst of all criteria. =http://blog.xplatxperts.com/xplat-xperts/2009/12/scom-and-distributed-application-building-custom-views.html =http://blog.xplatxperts.com/xplat-xperts/2009/10/operations-manager-and-the-distributed-application-designer.html =http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb381200.aspx =http://blog.xplatxperts.com/xplat-xperts/2010/01/scom-and-distributed-application-building-performance-views.html Regards ChandanCheck my blogs at http://blogs.technet.com/chandanbharti ============================================================ Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.