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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
Example
Expanding Subscription Criteria to see details into what criteria is filtered for subscription
SubscriptionCriteria
See previous blogs for the best practice / how to set up subscriptions to show useful data without all the clicks
Docs article How to Create Notification Subscriptions | Microsoft Docs