Merry Christmas to my MOM 2005 friends!

New for MOM 2005 users is the MOM 2005 Alert Detail RSS Feed. Unlike the summary feed that comes with the MOM 2005 Resource Kit, this simple custom RSS feed provides alert details by pulling alert data from the Counterpoint database using an SDK View (see screenshot in figure 2). Note you can make a copy of this file and update the SQL query within to make custom feeds, such as “Critical Alerts Only”, bringing MOM 2005 closer to the functionality available with Operations Manager 2007.

To Deploy: Simply 1) copy this ASP page to the default website on your MOM 2005 Server 2) update the connection string at the top of the file (pictured below) and add the URL to your RSS reader. The result is an article for each new alert generated in the Operations Console. Additional articles are not created for duplicate events (those that increment the alert count).

WHERE TO GET IT:

Download the MOM Alert Detail RSS Feed HERE.

Figure 1 - Connection String Properties (in rssfeed.asp). This sample uses SQL security to connect to the database, but you could update the connection string to use Windows security.

Figure 2 - Sample output from the MOM 2005 Alert Detail RSS Feed