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Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

You're reading from   Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Using SCOM 2016 TP 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289743
Length 560 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin Greene Kevin Greene
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Preface 1. Introduction to System Center Operations Manager FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing System Center Operations Manager 3. Exploring the Consoles 4. Deploying Agents 5. Working with Management Packs 6. Managing Network Devices 7. Configuring Service Models with Distributed Applications 8. Alert Tuning the Easy Way 9. Visualizing Your IT with Dashboards 10. Creating Alert Subscriptions and Reports 11. Backing Up, Maintenance and Troubleshooting Index

Testing Subscriptions


With your channels, subscribers and subscriptions all created, the next step is to give them a test run to ensure they're working as expected. E-mail alerting is by far the most popular method of alert notification and in most environments configuring a test subscriber with an internal or external (Gmail or Outlook.com) e-mail address is all that's required to see how the subscriptions are working.

However, if you're working in an environment that has a fairly locked down SMTP server (or maybe even no SMTP server if you're running a home-lab for testing), then you might be interested in giving a handy little tool called Papercut a try. Papercut is a free desktop e-mail receiver utility designed specifically to test e-mails from an application. Available on GitHub (https://github.com/jaben/papercut), it can be configured to run on startup or on-demand and sits in the system tray of your computer as shown in Figure 10.24. You can configure Papercut to listen on a designated...

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