From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of Andy Dominey
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:50 PM
To: msmom@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [msmom] Best Practices for notification/subscription - OpsMgr 2007
Although in answer to your question about the order in which to implement, you are correct, it is better in implement less alerts to begin with and then throttle them up as the system becomes better tuned and the alerts are more accurate.
Nothing worse than spamming people as that way, true critical alerts are often ignored.
Andy
From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of Andy Dominey
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:46 PM
To: msmom@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [msmom] Best Practices for notification/subscription - OpsMgr 2007
This is a difficult one to quantify on a mailing list. It depends on the customer’s requirements.
If they have a granular and distributed management model, the notification subscription configuration should reflect that. If, however, they have a single person or team managing everything, the notification configuration will be far more simplistic.
Bottom line, ‘Best Practice;’ is the configuration that suits the customer’s IT management model most appropriately.
Andy
From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of Matt Tinney
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:21 PM
To: msmom@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [msmom] Best Practices for notification/subscription - OpsMgr 2007
The other question I had was the overal best practice for implementing notifications. Is it best practice to configure a more generic notification subscription per application, then fine tune as needed? For instance, I created a notification for all exchange server critical alerts. I then fine tune the notifications based on the alerts that I want to be notified of or not.
Or is it best pratice to create more specific notification subscriptions?
How is everyone else doing it?
I have the following list of notifications that need to be implemented:
- Automatic services not started
- PING failures (server not responding)
- Fan failures
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Matt Tinney <mnt2556@gmail.com> wrote:
When I am configuring the SMS channel, there are no options to configure the SMS other then the text message and the encoding. I assume that I am simply enabling SMS on the OpsMgr server and then OpsMgr notification service handles sending out the SMS message?
Is the method that you describe the way in which the notification service in OpsMgr can send SMS messages directly?
Regarding the failure of the smtp notification channel, will it automatically failover to sending a text message (SMS)? Or do I need to configure that?
That requires a GPRS modem with a SIM card and a cell data provider, the plans can run as cheap as $10 for just messaging (No voice) - I wrote up an entire how to on enabling SMS in OpsMgr at http://www.pavleck.net/2009/04/configuring-sms-in-opsmgr/ - it's what you need, and how to do it.
Alternatively, if you use something else like the Clickatell gateway ( http://www.clickatell.com/products/sms_gateway.php ) you can create a custom notification channel which runs a script/program to fire off the alert. Which will work as long as you have inet connectivity.
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How do I send an alert via text message if the exchange server is down? Basically a way to send an alert via text message if the smtp channel is down?
I'm looking for some guidance on developing my notification/subscription configuration in opsmgr 2007 r2. For instance, I want my core server team to be notified of all critical alerts relating to the physical/logical disk objects. Has anyone seen anything like this?
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