Notifications and Subscriptions

When alerts are generated in the console, a wealth of information is available about the nature of the problem and how to troubleshoot and resolve it. However, most administrators will not be watching the console at all times. Operations Manager has a sophisticated notification mechanism that allows alerts to be forwarded to email, SMS, IM, or even a command-line interface. The most common method of alert notification is email.

However, Operations Manager generates a lot of alerts. If each one of these alerts were forwarded, this would overwhelm the average administrator’s Inbox and prove totally useless. Operations Manager has two alert parameters to help categorize the alerts. Each alert has two parameters that ...

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