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Office 365 Message Center alerting rule

Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Rules.MessageCenterAlertingRule (Rule)

Rule is used to process list of Messages for the Subscription via Office 365 API and generate or update corresponding informational Alerts in Operations Manager

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

The rule calls Office 365 Management API to get list of Messages from the Message Center for the Subscription.

Rule generates informational Alert targeted to the Subscription in Operation Manager for each Message.

Messages are suppressed using an unique ID. Rule updates Alert payload and context in case if data provided by API for the Message changes.

See the list of Messages in Office 365 Message Center

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription
CategoryAlert
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityInformation
Alert PriorityNormal
RemotableTrue
Alert Message
Message Center
{0}

Member Modules:

ID Module Type TypeId RunAs 
DS DataSource Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.DataSource.MessagesAlerts Default
Detection ConditionDetection System.ExpressionFilter Default
Alert WriteAction System.Health.GenerateAlert Default

Source Code:

<Rule ID="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Rules.MessageCenterAlertingRule" Enabled="true" Target="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription" ConfirmDelivery="true" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" DiscardLevel="100">

  <Category>Alert</Category>

  <DataSources>

    <DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.DataSource.MessagesAlerts">

      <TimeOut>300</TimeOut>

      <IntervalSeconds>900</IntervalSeconds>

      <SyncTime/>

      <SubscriptionId>$Target/Property[Type="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription"]/SubscriptionId$</SubscriptionId>

    </DataSource>

  </DataSources>

  <ConditionDetection ID="Detection" TypeID="System!System.ExpressionFilter">

    <Expression>

      <SimpleExpression>

        <ValueExpression>

          <XPathQuery Type="String">Property[@Name='EventType']</XPathQuery>

        </ValueExpression>

        <Operator>Equal</Operator>

        <ValueExpression>

          <Value Type="String">Message</Value>

        </ValueExpression>

      </SimpleExpression>

    </Expression>

  </ConditionDetection>

  <WriteActions>

    <WriteAction ID="Alert" TypeID="Health!System.Health.GenerateAlert">

      <Priority>1</Priority>

      <Severity>0</Severity>

      <AlertOwner/>

      <AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.MessageCenter.AlertMessage"]$</AlertMessageId>

      <AlertParameters>

        <AlertParameter1>$Data/Property[@Name='Description']$</AlertParameter1>

      </AlertParameters>

      <Suppression>

        <SuppressionValue>$Data/Property[@Name='IncidentId']$</SuppressionValue>

      </Suppression>

      <Custom1>$Data/Property[@Name='EventType']$</Custom1>

      <Custom3>$Data/Property[@Name='IncidentStatus']$</Custom3>

      <Custom4>$Data/Property[@Name='IncidentId']$</Custom4>

      <Custom5>$Data/Property[@Name='Title']$</Custom5>

      <Custom8>$Data/Property[@Name='View this message in Office 365 Message Center']$</Custom8>

      <Custom9>$Data/Property[@Name='Additional Information']$</Custom9>

    </WriteAction>

  </WriteActions>

</Rule>