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The third winner in our 2010/2011 post-of-the-week contest (week ending Jul 31th) is OpsMgr MVP Stefan Koell. Stefan answered a question for a common MP authoring problem with an interesting scripting / authoring technique. The question came up in the MP Authoring support forum:
Is it possible to include the value of an overridable parameter in the alert description of a custom monitor?
Normally, the answer would simply be "no". But there is a not so well-known workaround. As Stefan explains in this forum thread, "Why not just include the parameters or better the alert message as property bag value? At least that's the way I always do it..." By adding the value of the overridable parameter to the property bag of a script (no matter whether the property bag holds performance or state data), you can carry the parameter value to the output of the workflow.
Stefan's solution is explained in more detail in the following blog post:
OpsMgr FAQ: How to include override parameter values in alert description of custom rule or monitor
Great work Stefan! Your name goes into the hat for the prize drawing at TechEd Europe in Berlin!
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