I was faced with this today: Customer has a standby team that should receive notifications through email during night and weekends. The SLA States that only "Basic" server events should be notified on during this time, and together with the SCOM admin we have concluded that we need to provide alerting on the following clases to the team: -WIndows Server operating system -Hardware components -Server roles After I wrote the post I started playing around with creating a new Subscription that would only trigger on alerts from the following classes: -Computer Role -WIndows Logical Hardware Component -Windows Server Operating System Now, after having tested this subscription it doesn't work - the criteria doesn't include "subclasses" or inherited classes. So, in order for this to work I would have to mark each and every Computer Role and Logical Hardware component class to be included, which would turn this into admin nightmare (new classes added as new MPs are introduced). This is something I struggle with almost every day - how to get SCOM to notify the way the customer wants it to. Any pointers appreciated!

If you want all classes hosted by the computer, using a Computer Group (a group containing Windows Computer objects) would be an alternative that would generate alerts for Computer and all contained objects. Just check your hardware monitoring MP to see that the class model there ties into the Windows Computer object so you don't miss hardware alerts. Let me know if this does not make sense to you and we'll discuss at greater depth.Pete Zerger, MVP-OpsMgr and SCE | http://www.systemcentercentral.com