Good news! Cookdown Alert Sync 1.0 is now avaliable, allowing ServiceNow incidents to be automatically raised for SCOM alerts That’s great… now who is Cookdown? and how does Alert Sync work?

Have you ever wanted to detect a monitoring condition on an agent (Lets call it ProdWebser-01) and follow up the condition with a custom to either remediate the issue or get additional data for the alert? Great Idea, leveraging the agent is one of the best strengths of SCOM.

If you’re developing a management pack with custom UI and/or .NET modules you’ve gone through the steps of getting your DLL recognized by the engine and loaded as an Assembly or DeployedAssembly depending on the project (here’s an SCSM example). Durning an ongoing project constantly updating the resource mpx file to have the correct QualifiedName can be frustrating, time-consuming, and error-prone.