Hi all, Hopefully this is a simple question to answer, but I'm wondering why I'm not receiving notifications from the following rule: Collection Rule for Windows Clean Restart Events. The rule appears to be enabled by default for the Server 2008 operating system management pack yet nothing comes through when a monitored server is rebooted. On a more general level, I seem to get notifications from monitors just fine, but not so for rules. We're using SCOM 2007 R2 and the hosts being monitored are Server 2008 R2 (as is the management server itself). Cheers, Lain

Hi Lain, Collection Rule for Windows Clean Restart Events is the collection rule. It just collects restart events for you, not alerts you. You can see this events in event views(you should create one if you're want to see such events) or reports. If you want to be alerted (recieve notifications) you should create your own rule - alerting rule.http://OpsMgr.ru/

Hi Alexey, Thanks for the pointer - I wasn't aware of this difference given rules can be selected in the alert subscription configuration. I just assumed that meant they too could trigger notifications. I've created as simple, manual event viewer-based monitor which I'll test a bit later on once the agents have picked up the change. If it works, I'll come back and mark the thread as resolved. Cheers, Lain

I might have marked this a little too quickly, as while the alert worked for the first reboot, it hasn't triggered since. Is this possibly related to the ordering of the startup sequence of the services, and that the relevant EventLog events fire before the SCOM service has started? Cheers, Lain

Argh, nevermind. This is my mis-interpretation of the relationship between the closure of the alert and the resetting of the health for that monitor. I had assumed that closing the alert would reset the monitor back to healthy, but that's where I went wrong. Cheers, Lain