Monitoring

This section covers alert management, alert resolution, and alert filtering in depth. It covers the real-time management of alerts and how to set up resolution states.

Knowing a management group

It is very important to know the management group details when you get into a new Operations Manager environment. PowerShell provides the Get-SCOMManagementGroup cmdlet to get the details of the infrastructure management group. We can also get the detailed information of the management servers available in our SCOM monitoring environment. We can use this cmdlet with no argument. This cmdlet will return the details of the current monitoring infrastructure, which includes the monitoring management group name and group-related detailed information:

Get-SCOMManagementGroup

Alert management

As an SCOM administrator, it is one of our day-to-day activities to monitor alerts and respond to them. One way to see all the alerts, thrown on the Operations Manager console is to log in and check for alerts...