Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
• If there are users who will receive alerts but won’t have access to the Web console, create a notification channel that doesn’t include an alert link in the body of the SMTP message.
• Before performing maintenance work on Operations Manager itself, disable notification subscriptions. That prevents alerts from being generated during the maintenance.
• When creating new rules and monitors, create them as disabled by default. Then create overrides to enable the rules and monitors for specific instances of objects.
• Use the Look For feature of the console when searching for discoveries, monitors, and rules to override or edit.
• Be sure to back up custom management packs, Management ...
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