How to Reduce the SCOM OpsMgr eMail Alert Storm

How can the SCOM OpsMgr eMail Alert Storm be reduced? I don’t prefer to install and enable the SCCM management pack on the SCOM servers because of the fear of email alerts.

SCOM is expected to generate hundreds of emails, most of which are informational. Is there any way to reduce SCOM email alerts/notification storms?

Savision’s Live Maps Unity will help us notify only when necessary and provide a URL to the root cause details in the notification. Isn’t it cool?

Dennis Rietvink published an article explaining how to configure SCOM alert notifications to include a URL to the Live Maps Unity service map in an email.

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How to Reduce the SCOM OpsMgr eMail Alert Storm – Fig.1

How to Reduce the SCOM OpsMgr eMail Alert Storm

Following are the 3 scenarios explained in the post mentioned above.

  1. Creating an SMTP channel that formats and sends the service alert emails
  2. Creating a valid Subscriber that will receive the service alert emails
  3. Creating a Subscription that scopes the service alert emails

https://www.savision.com/resources/blog/scom-alert-notification-storms

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How to Reduce the SCOM OpsMgr eMail Alert Storm – Fig.2

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Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP! He is a Device Management Admin with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. He writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc.

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