Configuring Notifications - to include specific alerts from specific groups and classes
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012 12:56 PM
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?
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012 1:41 PMModerator
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
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012 3:56 PM
Try the group with this as member
1. HealthServerWatcherGroup/Microsoft.systemCenter.agentwatcherGroup
2. HealthServerWatcherGroup/Microsoft.systemCenter.CollectionManagementServerGroup
Roger
- Proposed As Answer by Nicholas LiMicrosoft Contingent Staff, Moderator Wednesday, August 08, 2012 3:01 AM
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012 5:37 PM
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.
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012 6:01 PMModerator
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
Graham
Regards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk
View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/- Marked As Answer by JohnB352 Wednesday, August 08, 2012 12:48 PM
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012 3:18 AMModerator
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.aspxCreating 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.aspxAnother 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.aspxHope this helps.
Thanks.
Nicholas Li
TechNet Community Support
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012 12:50 PM
Graham, that worked great!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.
Finally... we went a long time without getting heartbeat alerts.
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