Limit the collection of SCOM alerts to only those alerts that belong to the specified SCOM group.

Before you begin

Role required: evt_mgmt_admin

Procedure

  1. Use the SCOM Authoring workspace and Operations console to define a SCOM group and ensure that the group contains the required computers or instances.
    For further information about SCOM groups, see the SCOM documentation.
  2. Create a role that has a scope of the SCOM group.
  3. Add the new role to the SCOM user.
  4. Assign the role to the user defined in the credentials given to the SCOM connector instance.
  5. Remove all other roles from the user.

Result

Only alerts from the specified SCOM group arrive at the instance.