Modern Alternatives to Notifications & Subscriptions for SCOM

Are you maximizing the value of your monitoring tools? Are you spending too much time hopping between different systems? Do you feel your stakeholders are actively engaged?

If you’re a SCOM Admin these are the questions you should be asking yourself when it comes to measuring your monitoring success!

So, here’s how to tackle these challenges and get the best out of SCOM.  

Amalgamate your monitoring

Your IT landscape is diverse so you’ll need to pick the right monitoring tools for the job. So it’s likely you’ll be using a range of monitoring tools, to maximize value these tools need to be working in unison. By integrating all your monitoring tools, you can pool all your data, to synchronize alerts and events across your entire IT estate.

They’ll be no more flipping between tools; your IT teams can consume SCOM alerts in the method that suits them best, helping to get them engaged in SCOM alerts!

Out of the box SCOM notifications

There are three key methods you can use to send notifications using SCOM’s native console:

Stakeholder success 

However, these methods of communicating are becoming outdated, as people move to more user-friendly and flexible tools, both at work and in their personal lives.

Therefore, stakeholders are more likely to engage, consume and react to the information you are sending them if this is packaged up in their day-to-day communication tools.  As people’s work and personal lives collide, more people are working flexibly so it’s increasingly important to use the right tools for the job and your end customers.

Tools that are trending

There are endless messaging tools, apps, and systems you can connect to SCOM, here are some of the more commonly used in enterprise organizations:

• MS Teams

• Slack

• Cisco Jabber

• Webex App

• Google Workspace/Chat

• Salesforce Chatter

• Front

• Twist

• Flock

• Zoho Cliq

Code-free, connectivity

If you want to bring your monitoring up to date with today’s communication systems. Then don’t let yourself be limited by SCOM’s native tools!

Cookdown Connection Center, provides code-free integrations using Webhooks to connect SCOM to almost any messaging platform.  So, now you can quickly and simply setup up your monitoring to deliver alerts and events in the tools that work best for your business.

How does it work?

1) Use the wizard to choose where to send notifications. You can add multiple connections to build up a variety of different options (Slack, Teams, etc).

2) Customize your notifications by defining the scope for your connections, allowing you to send alerts from certain groups or certain classes.

3) Then select the criteria to specify the focus of your connection.

4) Click Finish and you’re done!

To find out more take a peek at our intro video >>>

Or, check out our free 30-day trial to see the value Cookdown Connection Center can deliver to your business.


Everything you need to know, support, and pricing quotes can be found at: www.cookdown.com/connection-center-webhooks