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Essential Microsoft Operations Manager
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Essential Microsoft Operations Manager

by Chris Fox
February 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
10h 37m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The Life of a MOM 2005 Alert

Now for the life cycle of a MOM 2005 alert. This explanation shows how MOM 2005 processes information, introduces you to the Operator console, and discusses how MOM 2005 is used on a daily basis to manage your environment.

A MOM 2005 alert tells you when something significant happened somewhere in one of your systems. Not all alerts are created equal; they come in different levels of severity, from the benign informational and success alerts to urgent service unavailable and critical error alerts.

Note that a MOM 2005 alert is not the same as a Windows Event log event. A Windows event is written to the event log on the server that the event occurred on and goes no further. It is specific to a service or component of that server and is, essentially, restricted to that computer.

Sometimes, a single event provides you with enough information to take action, but most of the time it doesn’t. Events do play a role in the generation of alerts, but they themselves are not alerts. In the world of MOM, think of an event as the indication of a symptom that something is wrong, not a diagnosis in and of itself. For example, if someone is sick and has a 103-degree fever, the measurement of the 103-degree fever would be like an event, as would a cough and stiff neck. This person would then go to a doctor who would consider all the symptoms before making a diagnosis (an alert) of the flu and prescribing bed rest, plenty of fluids, and pain reliever.

All alerts are generated ...

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