Good morning everyone! Hope everyone is having a good day....almost Friday!!! I have a request from the business and was wondering if you thought that this may tax the system. The request is to have all critical errors in the application log on a group of about 9 windows 2003/2008 servers sent to a particular group of people. I would likely set this up for alerting and autoclose. It would be specific to this group and application log. Would this be too taxing to the system to do?? Our environment looks like this: Root Mgt Server 2 Mgt servers (Sites) 1 primary SQL 2008 server 1 DWH SQL 2008 server Monitoring about 100 servers/devices Thanks in advance! Kevin Hittle

If you really need to do this ... It all depends on the expected frequency of errors. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi Kevin As Roger states - you'd really need to do some testing on how many critical events there are. It is the number of events that will determine the load on the system not the number of servers being monitored. Also, as Roger suggests - why are you doing this? What is the logic \ thought process of the team that have requested this. The purpose of OpsMgr is to look for specific information that relates to problems and not just to grab everything without applying any business or technical logic to it. If you really want to do it then you'd really need a rule wihout any suppresion and then a script that will run every x minutes and close any open alerts. While a timed reset monitors would help with the autoclose, you might miss events that are close together as if the monitor is in an unhealthy state, you won't get a new alert \ notification. Cheers GrahamView OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/