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the script is a GREAT tool based on what it does. (Honestly, I'm looking to write a connector which processes closed alerts and checks the associated monitor. if the monitor does not show healthy, reset it. Of course that would be using the connector framework which is outside the scope of PS.)

When a monitor toggles (and we have some that do a lot of that here) the ProblemID is the same each time. So if you created a dictionary you could add a row for the problem ID and include the AlertID,and the date of the alert's last modification. If the date of the next alert for the same problem is newer, remove the old and add the new. Of course you would want to include the open alerts as well.

Once the dictionary is populated, you would only process the most current alerts. If the alert is open, you would skip processing it (why reset a monitor based on an older closed alert if a new open one exists). [worthy of note... if you have an alert open for a healthy monitor... it probably should be closed anyway unless the monitor is not set to autoclose.]

I think this would improve performance because if you have a toggling alert, you could potentially reset a monitor multiple times when you only need to reset it once.

I am looking forward to playing with your script in the lab. thanks for posting it. Nice work!!

I'd offer a code snippet but I'm fluent in visual basic, not PS. I do need to become more fluent in PS.

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