Which subscription was the trigger?

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Ever run into an email you don’t want to get, but have difficulty finding

the subscription entry?

 

Do you get a subscription Email, and that channel has the Notification ID, but you’re not sure what subscription sent the alert email?

 

Let’s start with the notification email

Example

Notification subscription ID generating this message:

{AA0C1081-D04F-F5CA-DEB7-92B9ECA619E2}

 

On SCOM MS > Open PowerShell

Get-SCOMNotificationSubscription

 

Example

PS C:\windows\system32> Get-SCOMNotificationSubscription -ID

“BD52BB72-3FDE-9D7F-6214-B9A47A311896”

 

Configuration     :

Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Administration.AlertChangedSubscriptionConfiguration

ManagementGroup   : SCOMTestLab

Name              : Subscription168e29fd_a8e5_4ee4_956f_d9591b845475

DisplayName       : AD DailyTasks Report

Description       : +CRITERIA = Alert Name Contains ‘Proactive DailyTasks AD

Team Report’     +RESOLUTIONSTATE = (0)

New    +SUBSCRIBERS = AD team, USER Kevin Justin via EMAIL     +CHANNEL = SMTP Email

Actions           : {SMTPAction_a6a5314d_83f5_47c0_910a_e60040b4c808}

ToRecipients      : {USER <blank> via EMAIL, USER <blank> via EMAIL, USER

<blank> via Email, USER <blank> via EMAIL…}

CcRecipients      : {}

BccRecipients     : {}

Enabled           : True

Id                : bd52bb72-3fde-9d7f-6214-b9a47a311896

ManagementGroupId : 001b9265-3c9f-816c-aa36-a8687c05be8e

 

Get-SCOMNotificationSubscription | ? { $_.ID -eq

“BD52BB72-3FDE-9D7F-6214-B9A47A311896” }

 

Example

PS C:\windows\system32> Get-SCOMNotificationSubscription | ? { $_.ID -eq “BD52BB72-3FDE-9D7F-6214-B9A47A311896” }

Configuration     :

Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Administration.AlertChangedSubscriptionConfiguration

ManagementGroup   : SCOMTestLab

Name              : Subscription168e29fd_a8e5_4ee4_956f_d9591b845475

DisplayName       : AD DailyTasks Report

Description       : +CRITERIA = Alert Name Contains ‘Proactive DailyTasks AD

Team Report’     +RESOLUTIONSTATE = (0)

New    +SUBSCRIBERS = AD team, USER Kevin Justin via EMAIL     +CHANNEL = SMTP Email

Actions           : {SMTPAction_a6a5314d_83f5_47c0_910a_e60040b4c808}

ToRecipients      : {USER <blank> via EMAIL, USER <blank> via EMAIL, USER

<blank> via Email, USER <blank> via EMAIL…}CcRecipients      : {}

BccRecipients     : {}

Enabled           : True

Id                : bd52bb72-3fde-9d7f-6214-b9a47a311896

ManagementGroupId : 001b9265-3c9f-816c-aa36-a8687c05be8e

 

Update the subscription

Depending on the subscription criteria, you may need to adjust the classes, or rules/monitors, or even the criteria (properties)

 

Example

Using Subscription Description for more details into what is filtered, who alert is delivered to, and the channel used

SubscriptionDescription

 

Example

Expanding Subscription Criteria to see details into what criteria is filtered for subscription

SubscriptionCriteria

SubscriptionCriteria

See previous blogs for the best practice / how to set up subscriptions to show useful data without all the clicks

Subscription set up guide

Docs article How to Create Notification Subscriptions | Microsoft Docs