Use the management group Agent Heartbeat setting to configure how often agent-managed computers send a heartbeat to their management server. A heartbeat is a periodic pulse from an agent to its management server that contains information related to the health of the agent. For more information, see How to Configure the Agent Heartbeat Setting for an Operations Manager 2007 Management Group. For information about overriding the setting for a specific agent-managed computer, see Device Management Node of the Operations Manager 2007 Operations Console.

Use the management group General Alerts settings to do the following:

• Add alert resolution states, such as assigned.
  
  
• Configure custom fields for alerts.
  
  
• Configure automatic resolution of alerts.
  
  

For more information, see How to Configure Alerts Settings for an Operations Manager 2007 Management Group. For information about alerts, see Global Views in Operations Manager 2007.

Use the management group General Database Grooming setting to specify when record types, such as Resolved Alerts, are deleted from the Operations Manager database of the Operations Manager 2007 management group. The default grooming setting for all record types is data older than 7 days.

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Use the Reporting feature of Operations Manager 2007 for historical analysis of the management group. For information about Reporting, see Reporting in Operations Manager 2007.

Grooming helps maintain the performance of the Operations Manager database by managing its size through the deletion of unnecessary records. For more information, see How to Configure Grooming Settings for the Operations Manager 2007 Database in Operations Manager 2007.

Use the management group General Notification setting to create a notification channel. There are three actions that Operations Manager 2007 administrators must complete to configure a notification within a network environment. These three actions are creating a notification channel, creating recipients, and then configuring the notification message and content. For more information about these three actions, see How to Configure Notifications in Operations Manager 2007.

Use the management group General Privacy settings to perform the following actions:

• Enable or disable participation in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). For more information, see How to Configure the CEIP Setting for Operations Manager 2007.
  
  
• Enable or disable sending operational data reports to Microsoft. For more information, see How to Configure Operational Data Reports Settings in Operations Manager 2007.
  
  
• Configure sending error reports for Operations Manager 2007 components to Microsoft. For more information, see How to Configure Error Reporting Settings for Operations Manager 2007 Components.
  
  
• Configure what information is included in error reports sent to Microsoft. For more information, see How to Configure Error Transmission Settings for Client Monitoring in Operations Manager 2007.
  
  

Use the management group General Reporting settings to specify the reporting server for the management group. This would be necessary if, for example, a Domain Name System (DNS) change was made in the IT environment. For more information about changing Reporting settings, see How to Change Reporting Server URL Settings in Operations Manager 2007.

Use the management group General Web Addresses settings to specify the URL for the Web console and online product knowledge. For more information, see How to Deploy an Operations Manager 2007 Web Console Server Using the Setup Wizard.

Use the management group Server Heartbeat setting to configure the number of missed heartbeats that management servers for the management group will allow from an agent-managed computer before the state of the computer is changed to critical. For more information, see How to Configure the Heartbeat Failure Setting for an Operations Manager 2007 Management Group.

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To override the setting for a specific management server, see How to Override the Heartbeat Failure Setting for an Operations Manager 2007 Management Server.

Use the management group Server Security setting to configure whether agents installed using MOMAgent.msi will be rejected, displayed in Pending Management for review, or automatically approved for the management group. For more information, see How to Configure Security for Manual Agent Installs Setting for an Operations Manager 2007 Management Group. For information about the security implications of manually installed agents, see Security for Manual Agent Deployment in Operations Manager 2007.

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To override the setting for a specific management server, see How to Override the Manual Agent Installs Setting for an Operations Manager 2007 Management Server.

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