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Subscription Tool

19th January 2009, 02:38 am

Download: SubscriptionTool.zip

Source Code: SubscriptionTool Source Code.zip

 

Subscription Tool is a simple GUI based tool that lets you enable and disable all notification subscriptions.   This tool is useful if you need to do some major maintenance such as patches, upgrading hardware, redoing AD integration roles, or fixing a major problem. 

The real power of the tool is when you want to re-enable the subscriptions.    The tool will automatically re-enable all subscriptions using “Send notifications for alerts Generated after the subscription is enabled”.  This will save you from sending out huge alert storms your notification subscriptions.


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If you are not familiar with this, disable and then re-enable a subscription inside the ops mgr console.  You will notice when you re-enable the subscription you get the dialog box below.

enable

 

You could enable and disable all subscriptions with powershell using

“Get-NotificationSubscription | Disable-NotificationSubscription”

But powershell uses the default  “Send notifications for alerts Generated since the subscription is disabled  (potentially causing an Alert Storm).   There are no options inside powershell to do this unless you leverage the .net objects directly.

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5 Comments

  1. Stefan Stranger's Weblog - Manage your IT Infrastructure : Reblog: OpsMgr Subscription enabledisable tool:

    [...] Source: Everything System Center Operations Manager 2007 [...]

    20 January 2009, 4:27 am

  2. OpsMgr2007: Subscription Tool - Rod Trent at myITforum.com:

    [...] Subscription Tool is a simple GUI based tool that lets you enable and disable all notification subscriptions. This tool is useful if you need to do some major maintenance such as patches, upgrading hardware, redoing AD integration roles, or fixing a major problem. The real power of the tool is when you want to re-enable the subscriptions. The tool will automatically re-enable all subscriptions using “Send notifications for alerts Generated after the subscription is enabled”. This will save you from sending out huge alert storms your notification subscriptions. Download Subscription Tool [...]

    20 January 2009, 2:07 pm

  3. Blog Opsmgr / SCOM 2007, and Windows 2008 , Seven ...in french : Outil d'activation des notifications:

    [...] Tim McFadden auteur déjà du SCOM Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler 2.0 (outil qui comme sont nom l’indique permet de planifier les modes de maintenance) a récidivé. Il a créé un outil pour activer ou désactiver automatiquement les notifications. Et c’est ici : Subscription Tool [...]

    3 February 2009, 11:53 am

  4. John:

    When I use this tool to re-enable subscriptions (after using tool to disable subscriptions) all previously disabled subscriptions (prior to using tool to disable subscriptions) are now enabled. If only this tool can ignore those subscriptions that are already disabled, that would be great. But very good tool otherwise. Thanks.

    28 May 2010, 1:48 pm

  5. Cameron Fuller:

    QuickTricks: How to mass enable (or disable) subscriptions in OpsMgr?…

    We’re working on a MOM 2005 to OpsMgr 2007 migration where w ……

    1 June 2010, 9:28 am

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