Creating an Alert Definition

Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 (MOM) can generate alerts for enterprise conditions that require attention or special action. You can define alerts when you create some types of processing rules. When a processing rule match occurs, MOM generates an alert.

You can define an alert in the following processing rules:

For more information about creating an event rule or missing event rule, see Creating an Event Processing Rule.

For more information about creating a threshold rule, see Creating a Performance Processing Rule.

You can also create an alert based on an existing event. For more information, see Creating an Alert Based on an Event.