Create Alert

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Create Alert activity is used in a runbook to create a new alert in System Center Operations Manager that originated from another system monitor product.

The first time you run this activity in a runbook, it installs the Orchestrator Integration Library Management Pack in System Center Operations Manager. The Create Alert activity creates an event in System Center Operations Manager, which the Orchestrator Integration Library Management Pack then translates into a System Center Operations Manager alert.

For the procedure to configure this object, see: Configuring the Create Alert Activity.

The following tables list the properties and published data for this activity. The activity publishes all of the data from the required and optional properties into published data. The Custom Field properties correspond to Custom Field Numbered Items in System Center Operations Manager. For example, Custom Field1 in System Center Operations Manager corresponds to CustomField1 in the Create Alert activity.

Create Alert Properties

Create Alert Published Data

Configuring the Create Alert Activity

To configure the Create Alert activity

1. From the Activities pane, drag a Create Alert activity to the active runbook.

2. Double-click the Create Alert activity icon. The Properties dialog box opens.

3. Configure the settings in the Details tab:

   1. In the Server section, click the ellipsis button (...), and select the Operations Manager server Connection that you want to use for this activity. Click OK.

   2. In the Properties section, at least one field is required to define the activity. Click Select fields. The Add/Remove Property dialog box appears. From the Available list, select the fields that you want to configure in the alert and click the Add button. The fields appear in the Selected list. When you have finished selecting fields to be updated, click OK. The fields that you selected appear in the Properties list.

   3. Enter a value for each of the selected properties. If the property is Lookup-enabled, you can click the ellipsis (…) button next to the text box to browse for a value.

      You can also use published data to automatically populate the value of the property from the data output by a previous activity in the runbook.

      To use published data

      1. Right-click the property value box, click Subscribe, and then click Published Data.

      2. Click the Activity drop-down box and select the activity from which you want to obtain the data.

      3. To view additional data elements common across the runbook, select Show Common Published Data.

      4. Click the published data element you want to use, and then click OK.

         For a list of the data elements published by each activity, see the "Published Data" tables in the activity topic. For information about the Common Published Data items, see Published Data.

4. For information about the settings on the General and Run Behavior tabs, see Common Configuration Instructions for All Activities.

5. Click Finish.

To view the Orchestrator Integration Library Management Pack in System Center Operations Manager

• Open the System Center Operations Manager console. Click Administration, and then click Management Packs.

Other Activities

The Integration Pack for System Center Operations Manager contains the following additional activities:

• Get Alert

• Get Monitor

• Monitor Alert

• Monitor State

• Start Maintenance Mode

• Stop Maintenance Mode

• Update Alert