This is a 3 fold question. 1. Has there been any updated information in terms of the alert description being fixed so it will be displayed properly in sp1? Addtional what is the value suppose to be in the email piece so it does pull the correct value out for Web Monitors? 2. What is the 'retry count' option in Configure Settings section of the web monitors? What happens when it is set to 0 in terms of how the monitor actually will work? Does it just test it based on your interval time then that is it. What if it goes in error, then it uses the retry count? Not sure i understand how this works. 3. I saw a previous post about mass importing web monitors from the command shell using powershell. I was wondering how deep you can go in terms of using that? What pieces of the monitor are you able to create by command line? can you only create the base shell, or can you also modify various settings of the monitor? Does this still work in sp1. Any help in with these and how they've been affected in SP1 would be appreciated. Thanks. Kevin.
Hi kevinrprice@gmail.com, Not sure I have all answers for you, but I can try and some other will fill in I guess It is the management pack that controll the alert description. Do you mean that you have created your own rules and monitors and the alert descirption is empty? At this webpage there is a lot of good variables that you can insert in the alert description to get some information in it http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2007/12/12/adding-custom-information-to-alert-descriptions-and-notifications.aspx Retry Count specifies te number of times the connection will be retried if an error is encountered while trying to connect to the web application. I have not seem that post, please post it to the group. But if you create a web application monitor in one new MP, I guess you can look at the XML file for that MP and get a clue how to create a web application monitor by a script. -- Anders Bengtsson Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager http://www.contoso.se k> This is a 3 fold question. k> k> 1. Has there been any updated information in terms of the alert k> description being fixed so it will be displayed properly in sp1? k> Addtional what is the value suppose to be in the email piece so it k> does pull the correct value out for Web Monitors? k> k> 2. What is the 'retry count' option in Configure Settings section of k> the web monitors? What happens when it is set to 0 in terms of how k> the monitor actually will work? Does it just test it based on your k> interval time then that is it. What if it goes in error, then it k> uses the retry count? Not sure i understand how this works. k> k> 3. I saw a previous post about mass importing web monitors from the k> command shell using powershell. I was wondering how deep you can go k> in terms of using that? What pieces of the monitor are you able to k> create by command line? can you only create the base shell, or can k> you also modify various settings of the monitor? Does this still k> work in sp1. k> k> Any help in with these and how they've been affected in SP1 would be k> appreciated. k> k> Thanks. k> k> Kevin. k>
