MOM Alerts

This page details problems and issues relating to MOM Alerts.

100 Event Rule [23/7/03]
15 Minutes to Report Loss of Connectivity [21/05/03]
"Active Directory Last Bind - Critical Error" [06/05/03]
Can I Configure MOM to send some Alerts to my Mobile and the Rest to my Email? [09/12/04]
Can I Suppress Duplicate Alerts Created by a Script? [08/02/03]
Can MOM Make a Sound or Produce a Popup When a New Alert Arrives? [24/10/03]
Can MOM Send Alerts to My Mobile Phone? [29/05/03]
Can you Configure the Email Notification for both SMTP and Exchange? [17/01/05]
Creating a Custom Task to Resolve Alerts [04/04/03]
Duplicate Emails for Every Alert after Outlook Re-install on DCAM [09/02/03]
Events being Written to the Database but No Alerts being Generated [09/02/03]
False "Service Stopped Errors" [04/10/04]
Getting An Event to Notify only After ‘X’ Number of Occurrences [19/06/03]
How Do I Configure MOM to Send an Email Alert when a Server is down? [02/08/04]
How Does MOM Handle HeartbeatFailureAnalysis? [23/09/04]
Putting Formulas in the Alert Description [25/05/04]
Zones and Alert Forwarding [27/05/03]

100 Event Rule

From the microsoft.public.mom newsgroup
If you're seeing a message along the lines of 'The Consolidator has received 100 events for alert {DA832E10-DBAB-4F08-B1AF-C019CC8D49F8}. Future events for this alert will not be associated with the alert.' in the Event log of your DCAM then here's an explanation... [Go to article]

15 Minutes to Report Loss of Connectivity

Contributed By: Mike Betts [MVP MOM]
If you’re experiencing delays that are unacceptable before MOM pages you to let you know it can’t see a server anymore then here’s a tip on how to reduce this… [Go to article]

"Active Directory Last Bind - Critical Error"

From the microsoft.public.mom newsgroup
If you’re seeing alerts generated by this rule and you can’t track them down then don’t worry too much… [Go to article]

Can I Configure MOM to send some Alerts to my Mobile and the Rest to my Email?

Contributed By: Brian Wren [MSFT]
Wouldn't it be great if you could get MOM to send certain alerts such as when a server is low on disk space to your mobile and other less critical alerts to your email? Well here's one way of achieving this… [Go to article]

Can I Suppress Duplicate Alerts Created by a Script?

Is there a way to suppress duplicate alerts if you used scripting to generate the alert?

Contributed By: Mike Betts [MVP MOM]
No you can't.

Can MOM Make a Sound or Produce a Popup When a New Alert Arrives?

Contributed By: Michael T La Rivière {MS}
Wouldn’t it be great if MOM could make a sound or display a popup window when a new Alert arrives?.. [Go to article]

Can MOM Send Alerts to My Mobile Phone?

From the microsoft.public.mom newsgroup
If you’re wondering whether MOM can send SMS messages to your mobile then read on… [Go to article]

Can you Configure the Email Notification for both SMTP and Exchange?

Contributed By: James Morey [MSFT]
Wondering if this is an either or?.. [Go to article]

Creating a Custom Task to Resolve Alerts

From the microsoft.public.mom newsgroup
If you’re wondering how to do this then read on… [Go to article]

Duplicate Emails for Every Alert after Outlook Re-install on DCAM

Contributed By: Mike Betts [MVP MOM]
If after re-installing Outlook 2000 on your DCAM you get duplicate emails for every Alert here's a suggestions... [Go to article]

Events being Written to the Database but No Alerts being Generated

Contributed By: Mike Betts [MVP MOM]
If you're experiencing the situation where the NT Events are being written to the database but no alerts are being generated the here's some help... [Go to article]

False "Service Stopped Errors"

Contributed By: Baelson Duque [MSFT]
If MOM is reporting that a Service has stopped yet when you investigate you find everything is fine it could be down to how the service is configured… [Go to article]

Getting An Event to Notify only After ‘X’ Number of Occurrences

Contributed By: Mike Betts [MVP MOM]
Wondering how to get MOM to notify you if an event happens a certain number of times in a set time window? Well wonder no more… [Go to article]

How Do I Configure MOM to Send an Email Alert when a Server is down?

Contributed By: Brian Wren [MSFT]
Want MOM to send an email alert to the Administrator when a server is down?.. [Go to article]

How Does MOM Handle HeartbeatFailureAnalysis?

Contributed By: Brian Wren [MSFT]
If you're wondering how this aspect works in MOM then read on... [Go to article]

Putting Formulas in the Alert Description

Contributed By: Baelson Duque [MSFT]
If you’d like to include a calculated field in the Alert description then here’s some suggestions… [Go to article]

Zones and Alert Forwarding

Contributed By: Mike Betts [MVP MOM]
So you’re trying to configure Alert forwarding between zones but just can’t quite get it to work. Well here’s some pointers to help you out… [Go to article]