Automating Incident & Problem management – Part I: Creating a SCOM monitor and generating fake alerts

This is the first part of a series of posts which will demonstrate how automation can be implemented in Incident and Problem Management. For this, fake SCOM alerts will auto-generate incidents in SCSM, triggering specific Orchestrator runbooks that will provide a fix for the generating issue.

This first part walks through the steps of configuring a Monitor in SCOM and creating fake alerts to be used in future posts.

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