OpsMgr Self Maintenance Health Service OMS Heartbeat Event Rule

OpsMgr.Self.Maintenance.OMS.HealthService.Heartbeat.Rule (Rule)

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This rule runs on Management Servers, Gateway Servers and agents. It sends a heartbeat event (EventID 100) to the Azure Operational Insights (Microsoft Operations Management Suite) workspace.

Configuration

By default, this rule is configured to run ever 3 minutes (180 seconds). this can be configured via override. This rule is configured to run even when the Windows computer has been placed in maintenance mode.

The events can be accessed by in OpInsights via query such as "Type=Event Source=OMSHeartbeat EventID=100"

Additional

The data can be access via the OMS web portal (Type:Event EventID=100) or via the OMS Search API.

Element properties:

Target	OpsMgr.Self.Maintenance.OMS.HealthService.Heartbeat.Node
Category	Operations
Enabled	False
Alert Generate	False
Remotable	True

Member Modules:

ID	Module Type	TypeId	RunAs
DS	DataSource	OpsMgr.Self.Maintenance.OMS.Send.Heartbeat.DS	Default
HttpWA	WriteAction	Microsoft.SystemCenter.CollectCloudGenericEvent	Default

Source Code:

<Rule ID="OpsMgr.Self.Maintenance.OMS.HealthService.Heartbeat.Rule" Enabled="false" Priority="Normal" Remotable="true" ConfirmDelivery="false" DiscardLevel="100" Target="OpsMgr.Self.Maintenance.OMS.HealthService.Heartbeat.Node">

  <Category>Operations</Category>

  <DataSources>

    <DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="OpsMgr.Self.Maintenance.OMS.Send.Heartbeat.DS">

      <IntervalSeconds>180</IntervalSeconds>

      <EventID>100</EventID>

      <ComponentType>$Target/Property[Type="OpsMgr.Self.Maintenance.OMS.HealthService.Heartbeat.Node"]/OpsMgrComponentType$</ComponentType>

      <TimeoutSeconds>60</TimeoutSeconds>

    </DataSource>

  </DataSources>

  <WriteActions>

    <WriteAction ID="HttpWA" TypeID="IPTypes!Microsoft.SystemCenter.CollectCloudGenericEvent"/>

  </WriteActions>

</Rule>