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Post SCOM Alerts to a REST endpoint

I wrote a quick script the other day to pull some SCOM Alert data for testing and thought I’d share a summarized version for anyone looking for easy options to extract their SCOM data. The below sample script pulls all of the SCOM Alerts from your Management Group and pushes them via REST to a specified endpoint. Using the Operations Manager module makes this pretty quick and painless. I’ve called out a couple of easy tweaks you can make below to the script itself.

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Want to be able to work even faster and smarter? Download Discovery 1.5, live today!

Our ServiceNow Discovery Connector extends your ServiceNow discovery sources into SCOM, allowing you to leverage the rich management pack discoveries and wide SCOM agent deployment to populate your CMDB with everything from servers and devices to databases, clusters, and services. All with no extra agents, so you are up and running in minutes not months! Our latest version also brings with it some new features.

We've just launched Alert Sync 1.5 and it's even more functionally fantastic than before!

So, what shiny new functionality have we added for you to enjoy? As well as all the great stuff Alert Sync did before, you can now benefit from even more features: Wait Rules allow an incoming SCOM alert to be held for a specified period of time; before being evaluated against Incident Creation rules. This is really useful for those incidences when a SCOM alert might open and close itself in quick succession (like a CPU usage threshold monitor).

Cookdown Alert Sync Wait Rules Explained

From Cookdown Alert Sync 1.5 onwards, the SCOM connector for ServiceNow allows you to hold alerts for a period of time before deciding whether to create an Incident in ServiceNow for them or not. This is great for preventing alerts from port flaps or CPU utilization spikes from being raised as Incidents. We call this functionality "Wait Rules" and this video explains how they work

We've teamed up with Apajove to capture their expertise in SCOM

We’re teaming up with SCOM Experts, Apajove, to bring you a ‘tuning pack’ for our fantastic, but also FREE EasyTune download, allowing you to tune an entire management pack in a matter of minutes. The Apajove tuning pack is live on our community store now and incorporates the tips and trick of the trade, which they use in their own SCOM deployments everyday; many of which have taken root in the work of the notorious Kevin Holman.

SQL Server Agnostic Tuning Pack for Easy Tune Launched

Remember that old commercial from the eighties of the actor Chris Robinson saying “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV”? (Yes, I know it’s an old commercial, but the catchphrase has definitely outshone the original product placement.) Well, I would like to start this blog post by changing things up and saying that “I’m not a Database Administrator, but I like to play one on TV!” Or, um, well, at least I like to pretend to be a DBA. Sometimes.