Office 365 Planned Maintenance Message alerting rule

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

The rule is used to process the list of Planned Maintenance Messages for the Subscription via Office 365 API, and to generate or update corresponding warning Alerts in the Operations Manager.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

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

The rule generates warning Alert targeted to the Subscription in the Operations Manager for each Planned Maintenance Message.

The messages are suppressed by means of a unique ID. The rule updates Alert payload and context if data provided by API for the Message changes.

See the list of Messages in Office 365 Message Center

Element properties:

Target

Microsoft.SystemCenter.O365.Subscription

Category

Alert

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

Warning

Alert Priority

Normal

Remotable

True

Alert Message

Planned Maintenance

{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.PlannedMaintenanceAlertingRule" 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>

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

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

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

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

    </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">PlannedMaintenance</Value>

        </ValueExpression>

      </SimpleExpression>

    </Expression>

  </ConditionDetection>

  <WriteActions>

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

      <Priority>1</Priority>

      <Severity>1</Severity>

      <AlertOwner/>

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

    </WriteAction>

  </WriteActions>

</Rule>