Hello
Can someone help me with the following question please.
This is a two part question
1: We have an SQL DBA team who want to received alerts (via notification) for SQL related issues and Not Windows Operating System Related issues.
So this one is reasonable straight forward, as I set up a notification subscription and under the criteria I select ‘Created by Specific Rule of Monitors (e.g. Sources)’ when the next box appears I select each of the SQL MPs and select All the object therein which adds a whole lot of SQL related rules and monitors etc. to the list for example ‘The service cannot be started” rule. I then fill in the other criteria I am interested in for this notification e.g. choosing the SQL DBA team as recipients etc. I do note however if I ever go back to look at or edit this notification subscript it is slow to load up in the console (SCOM 2007 R2 CU6) probably due to the number of rules and monitors etc. listed.
OK so the above works.
Now the SQL guys say well, that’s OK, but will do not want alerts from our DEV SQL Servers and all out DEV Servers (he computer name) starts like this DEV
So now I have a choice (and here is where I need some guidance please) I could either
A: Create a dynamic group whose members are Windows Computer NetBIOS Name, does not match wildcard DEV* for example (had mixed results using RegEx as a filter). The add this to the criteria
Or
B: Create a dynamic groups whose members are both “SQL Database Engine” and SQL Database” Class (so I end up with a group full of SQL Database Engine and SQL Database instances. I then further refine both of these adding an ‘expression’ to say where ‘parent class’ ‘Windows.Computer.NetBIOS Computer Name’ does not match wild card DEV*
Now I choose B: above (and the group is populated as I would expect), the reason I chose B ( and again this is where I need some guidance please) is I am thinking the monitors targeted at SQL related instances e.g. the monitors which would select via ‘Created by Specific Rule of Monitors (e.g. Sources)’ may Not ‘rollup their health state’ to Windows Computer but stop at SQL Database or SQL Database Engine. Not sure making an assumption here. Therefore my logic is if I chose option A above the notification may not work as the health start rollup my effect the outcome.
Therefore do you think option B above is the correct choice? And if not why not? Or would it make no difference in this case e.g. same result from both?
Thank you all
JoB333x1!