Generating Alerts On OMS
On the previous articles about Microsoft OMS, we've configured event and log collection from various systems and we've queried the workspace for information. We have the information, wouldn't it be great if we could also act on it? The Operations Management Suite has a feature named "Alerts" that provides this functionality. Creating alerts is a straight forward and only takes a few minutes. To illustrate the process, we are going to configure an alert for a Windows Server Failover Cluster that hosts the File Server role. When a cluster resource is moving to another node of the cluster, an event with id 1641 is generated under the source "FaileoverClustering" of the log "Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering/Operational". To create the alert, we are going to need a query that returns the above events: Let's create the alert. From the main OMS blade, select "Alerts" and then "Create New Rule": This will bri...