Hi Gourav,
I've made some progress in this. Turns out you CAN create a group of service monitors, but the monitor has to be created using the
Windows Service Template.
So the general steps go like this -
1. Create a group (or groups, depending on your technology) of servers where you want to see the report.
2. Create individual service monitors using the windows service template for each of the service that you want to monitor. Better to give them fitting names so that you can create a dynamic query later while creating groups. E.g., add the prefix "MSX"
or something for your Exchange services and likewise for other technologies.
3. Create a group (or groups, one per technology). You can choose explicit members in this case since the number of services is small. Just search for each service and add it in the group. If you wish to create a dynamic query, it would go something like
( Object is Object AND ( Display Name Contains MSX ) AND True) . This will create the group of services you want.
4. Now, try running the availability report against this group. Now here I say TRY, because I do not have Reporting installed in my lab so I couldn't test it.
Please try this and let us know the result.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Sam (Please take a moment to "Vote as Helpful" and/or "Mark as Answer" wherever applicable. Thanks!)
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