AEM: Error Group Communication Timeout

Microsoft.SystemCenter.CM.AEM.ErrorGroupCommunicationTimeout.Alert (Rule)

This rule generates alerts when Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) encounters a time-out error while transmitting an error group report and/or related cab to "watson.microsoft.com" on this management server.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

On communicating with the Microsoft Watson Service, AEM encountered a timeout.

Causes

When a Error report/related cab was transmitted to the Microsoft Watson service, AEM encountered a timeout. This may happen due to several reasons. A few being that the Watson Service is down or there are other network issues.

Resolutions

The Alert is a warning alert to note that a response to an Error Group report could not be retrieved due to a communication timeout. If this happens repeatedly, please check your network and/or contact support.microsoft.com with the error information.

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.SystemCenter.ManagementServer
CategoryAlert
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityError
Alert PriorityNormal
RemotableTrue
Alert Message
AEM: Error Group Communication Timeout
{0}

Member Modules:

ID Module Type TypeId RunAs 
DS DataSource Microsoft.SystemCenter.CM.AEM.AlertModule Default
GenerateAlert WriteAction System.Health.GenerateAlert Default

Source Code:

<Rule ID="Microsoft.SystemCenter.CM.AEM.ErrorGroupCommunicationTimeout.Alert" Enabled="true" Target="SCLibrary!Microsoft.SystemCenter.ManagementServer" ConfirmDelivery="true" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" DiscardLevel="100">
<Category>Alert</Category>
<DataSources>
<DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="Microsoft.SystemCenter.CM.AEM.AlertModule">
<EventNumber>10912</EventNumber>
<ManagementGroupName>$Target/ManagementGroup/Name$</ManagementGroupName>
</DataSource>
</DataSources>
<WriteActions>
<WriteAction ID="GenerateAlert" TypeID="Health!System.Health.GenerateAlert">
<Priority>1</Priority>
<Severity>2</Severity>
<AlertName/>
<AlertDescription/>
<AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name='Microsoft.SystemCenter.CM.AEM.ErrorGroupCommunicationTimeout.Alert.AlertMessage']$</AlertMessageId>
<AlertParameters>
<AlertParameter1>$Data/EventDescription$</AlertParameter1>
</AlertParameters>
<Suppression>
<SuppressionValue/>
</Suppression>
</WriteAction>
</WriteActions>
</Rule>