Notification Subscriptions

re: Notification Subscriptions

Denis Orlov — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:49:15 GMT

How I can use this C+ code?

I must make an exe file?

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:55:14 GMT

This is C# and yes, you would need to make an exe.

re: Notification Subscriptions

Denis Orlov — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:05:37 GMT

Oh, I see.

Will it create new Subscription, new Recipient and new Notification Channel?

Shall I have opportunity to see it in UI?

Shall I have opportunity to change it through UI?

Thanks

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:42:28 GMT

To answer your questions in order:

Yes

Yes (depending on the complexity of the criteria, however, some things are not supported in the UI)

re: Notification Subscriptions

Denis Orlov — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:54:00 GMT

Thanks a Lot!

re: Notification Subscriptions

Denis Orlov — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:41:01 GMT

Thanks a Lot!

I try to run this code, but get a error:

"The type or namespace name 'EnterpriseManagement' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?)"

re: Notification Subscriptions

Denis Orlov — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:09:53 GMT

I could create a new Subscription!!!

Thanks!

re: Notification Subscriptions

Denis Orlov — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:08:41 GMT

The first results

(It is my first operational experience with C# and VS)

First of all I can’t see new Notification channel.

How to remove already created channels (by this code)?

I want to add new subscription to the concrete monitor (alerts from only one monitor) and I don’t see how I can do this by this code.

Where I can get all parameters, if I must use “Criteria” property of AlertChangedSubscriptionConfiguration Class for this? And I do not know where I can get Monitor ID.

Thanks!

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:50:55 GMT

1. To find the notification channel, go to the Administration pane -> Settings -> Notification.

2. You can delete from there, or programatically using the ManagementGroup.DeleteNotificationAction()/DeleteNotificationEndpoint() methods.

3/4. You need to use criteria for this. Essentially, you can use any property that is defined on the MonitoringAlert object. For a monitor it is ProblemId.

re: Notification Subscriptions

Denis Orlov — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:18:49 GMT

Thanks Jakub!

1. I can find there only channels which have been created through UI, and not one channel through this code.

2. Thanks for advice

3. I'll try.

Thanks a lot!

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:53:06 GMT

1. Looks like the UI uses specific names for the channels it shows:

SmtpEndpoint and DefaultSmtpAction

ImEndpoint and DefaultImAction

SmsEndpoint and DefaultSmsAction

re: Notification Subscriptions

Rico_Chang — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:06:00 GMT

Hi Jakub,

I have tested your sample code to create a subscription for our customer's requirement for a while. However I could not find the code to control "Alert Aging" option in your sample code and SDK. Could you tell me how to control alert aging option under subscription? Thank you for your help.

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:29:35 GMT

Are you looking for alerts that haven't changed in some time? For that, you should use AlertNotChangedSubscriptionConfiguration and the IdleMinutes property.

re: Notification Subscriptions

Rico_Chang — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:18:11 GMT

Thanks Jakub. That is what I need. Now I can understand the sdk descirption of IdleMinutes "Gets or sets the interval of time, in minutes, that alerts do not change.".

I also find out you have sample code which used this property in another post.

http://blogs.msdn.com/jakuboleksy/archive/2006/11/21/differences-between-mcf-in-mom-2005-and-scom-2007.aspx

BTW, will MS plan to release a enhanced SCOM console that support creating complex subscription? I got exception window each time when I double-click subscription created by coding. It's a little hard to maintain.

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:19:45 GMT

Unfortunately, there is no current plan to expand the UI support for creating subscriptions.

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:21:10 GMT

It would actually be helpful if you submitted feedback requesting this functionality as the largest reason for not doing it is not having a lot of feedback that it is necessary (and thus it gets prioritized below other issues). Here's the site for feedback:

http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=209

Set-NotificationForAlert

code4ward.net — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:05:14 GMT

In MOM 2005 it was easy to notify someone on specific alerts. SCOM 2007 - with it's subscription

A few questions of interest - Question 8

Steve Rachui's Manageability blog - SMS/MOM — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:36:23 GMT

1. Is it possible to create notifications on a rule by rule basis? If so, how? If not, why not? Yes,

re: Notification Subscriptions

jdpickering — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:06:02 GMT

I've looked over your code above and I understand everything till you get down to the Alert Configuration. Where do I get that? I have a rule that I created and i want it to send out an Email when that alert is generated and I follow the creating the endpoint and everything but don't understand where do i point it to my rule to say send email?

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:12:10 GMT

The send email part is the actions. For picking a particular rule, you need to change the xml configuration. If you look at the linked powershell example, that has another example of configuration for generating an email off a particular monitor. Check out that post and related comments and see if that clears things up.

re: Notification Subscriptions

andydominey — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:45:36 GMT

Hey Jakub,

I need to be able to subscribe to a single alert in OpsMgr for a product connector here at the client site I am working on. I know this is possible for e-mail alerts as you have demonstrated. Is it possible to do the same for a connector subscription?

Andy

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:56:10 GMT

Yep, you just need to use the MonitoringConnectorSubscription instead:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.enterprisemanagement.connectorframework.monitoringconnectorsubscription.aspx

re: Notification Subscriptions

vsefcik — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:16:45 GMT

Subscriptions that I add with this code all have a Last Modified Date in the e-mail body that is in UTC and not localized. However, if I edit the e-mail format in the Operations Console and save it, the Last Modified Date is then localized. Is there a property that needs to be set to have the Last Modified Date localized? There is a TimeZone property in the AlertSubscriptionConfiguration object, but either I don't know the format of the string or it is being ignored.

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:38:59 GMT

I am not 100% sure what the timezone format is, but if you export the Notifications.Internal.Library from the console you can see what the value is set to in the xml and set it to the same thing in code.

re: Notification Subscriptions

vsefcik — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:48:26 GMT

Many thanks for the lead, Jakub. Your suggestion worked. In case anyone else is interested, the TimeZone value for my area (Pacific coast) was:

E001000000000000C4FFFFFF00000B0000000100020000000000000000000300000002000200000000000000|Pacific Standard Time

re: Notification Subscriptions

StefanKoell — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:30:09 GMT

Hi!

I realize that you are now in another team, but maybe you can give us more insight on how to implement your solution to work with rules instead of monitors. Somehow this subscription only works with alerts generated by monitors. Any thoughts?

Thanks

cheers

Stefan

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:11:00 GMT

If you use ProblemId in your configuration, that should be the MonitorId when the alert is generated from a monitor. Is that not working?

re: Notification Subscriptions

Richard K — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:40:11 GMT

The problem is that with Rules, the ProblemID isn't the same each time an Alert is generated. I've been attempting to use the MonitoringRuleId instead, but haven't had much luck so far.

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:12:33 GMT

Yeah, you want to use MonitoringRuleId for rules and ProblemId for monitors.

re: Notification Subscriptions

TheBowMan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:33:55 GMT

Hello!

I want to create a Connector that takes new alerts generated by specific

computers and export them in an external applications.

In order to filter the alerts I create a subscription but I am facing two

problems:

1st: I know that the only possible fields that I can apply the subscription

on are the dbo.Alert fields of OperationsManager SQL DB. Here I cannot find a

field containg the Computer name (nor the FQDN) that generates the alert.

Therefore I thought to check for the hostname in the Alert Context field.

2nd: the Alert Context field does not contain only the hostname but many

field, therefore I decided to use "Like" as operator and the hostname as

value. Ufortunately the "Like" operator does not work.

I tried the enclosed subscriptions in order to understand how they works but

I can only have working the subscriptions with "Equal" as operator.

- Equal works.

- Like (AlertName) should send to connector every alert generated by

alertname with "core" occurrences instead nothing is passed. This is

extremely odd because with equal I see the specific alerts. With Like

(AlertName) I should see at least the alerts filtered by equal,

instead...nothing.

- Like (AlertContext) I thought to see all alerts coming from MASTERDC,

instead: nothing.

I actually made another try putting the value with the "Like" operator

between two ( ' ) but still notihng

Where did I made wrong? Could you supply me the correct subscription synthax ?

Moreover: do you think that the solution I found (look for hostname in the

alert context) is good or you suggest to look in someother place ?

If yes, could give me some snippet?

Thank you!

Federico

[equal]

<Property>AlertName</Property>

</ValueExpression>

<Operator>Euqal</Operator>

<Value>SIMATIC IT 6.3 SP2 - Core - Program Registration Server -

6002</Value>

</ValueExpression>

</SimpleExpression>

[Like (AlertName)]

<Property>AlertName</Property>

</ValueExpression>

</ValueExpression>

</SimpleExpression>

[Like (AlertContext)]

<Property>Context</Property>

</ValueExpression>

<Value>MASTERDC</Value>

</ValueExpression>

</SimpleExpression>

re: Notification Subscriptions

kramersteve — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:59:03 GMT

What do you do with this script? Where is it loaded into SCOM?

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:59:30 GMT

The script in the post? You need to compile and run the code.

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:00:33 GMT

About the post on Dec 1st, sorry, I never received a notification about it. For your issue, you'd want to look at the filtering the subscriptions by group and/or type, outside of criteria. This is supported in the UI and you should be able to create the subscrption you want.

re: Notification Subscriptions

kramersteve — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:52:59 GMT

Sorry, I probably didnt word that correctly. I see the script and I can copy and paste that into a .ps1 file. Do you have a link to the process to compile and use it in the tool? I am very new to this tool and I havent been through this before.

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:02:05 GMT

Which script? The code in my post is C# and needs to be compiled.

Notification Subscription pointing to a specific Computer Group

Elizabeth1978 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:32:46 GMT

Hello all!

I want to create a subscription that forwards to my connector (created via SCOM SDK) the alerts coming from a custom computer group I created and called "MyGroup".

In order to achieve this goal I completed these steps:

1) I created the connector via SDK

2) I created manually the subscription via the SCOM UI selecting only "MyGroup", the first option of Targets and checking all the checkboxes in the criteria

3) I exported in a XML file via SCOM SDK the subscription just created

...then I read the XML file and I noticed that it contains the criteria but does not mention any Computer Group (nor "MyGroup").

Now I need to understand how PROGRAMMATICALLY associate a specific subscription to a specific computer group.

Can some gentleman help me?

Thank you!

Bye

Lizzy

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:22:22 GMT

If you look at the sample in this post, the AlertNotChangedSubscriptionConfiguration has a MonitoringObjectGroupIds that you would add the Id of your group to.

re: Notification Subscriptions

Elizabeth1978 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:53:32 GMT

Hi Jakubm and thank's for the support!

Actually in your post I did not find mention about "MonitoringObjectGroupIds".

I tried anyway to set the GUID of the Computer Group I created in this way:

...

config.Criteria = XML_File_With_Criteria;

Guid ComputerGroupGuid = new Guid("c8635b06-fbb1-cf1a-d019-38851f0505c0");

config.MonitoringObjectGroupIds[0] = ComputerGroupGuid;

...

The I compiled (no errors at all) and launched.

The result is that the connector is created but the subscription creation is stopped (it seems paused) in le line of "config.MonitoringObjectGroupIds[0]".

I put I try...catch but no errors are raised.

Where I make wrong ?

Thank you again!

Elizabeth

re: Notification Subscriptions

JakubOleksy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:16:49 GMT

You need:

config.MonitoringObjectGroupIds.Add(ComputerGroupGuid);

re: Notification Subscriptions

Elizabeth1978 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:39:57 GMT

Work greatly!

Thank you!

Huges and kisses!

Lizzy!