Are the alerts not relevant, or non-actionable? For non-actionable alerts, tune them in scom to email only, and not send SMS alerts. If the alert is not relevant, then perhaps the severity should be informational or disabled. A lot of the work in any monitoring system is tuning, and anything that comes up should be addressed so that you don't get alerted over and over again for things you don't need to respond to. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh OHeiligh Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 7:04 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] SCOM notifications. Hello, I know one or two of you here use Nagios. I tried that but unfortunately this is very much a point and click type company so the thought's of editing conf files fills management with fear and dred. we have SCOM here and they like it a lot. I get about 256 messages a week that are absolutely useless but hey, if management are happy then I'm happy. I was just wondering if anyone who uses SCOM has customized it to send out any nice alerts? Do you have SMS or any phone integration? What about TTS? Is there anything i can do to make this useful? I have it set up so that it displays a few dashboards on a big screen in this office but although management like the security of nice colourful images, I think a dodgy toaster would probably be more interesting from my perspective. Any thought's welcome. Darragh _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins