Send SMS alerts from Microsoft SCOM 2012

To enable an SMS notification channel:

1. Log on to the computer with a user account that is a member of the Operations Manager Administrators role.
2. In the Operations console, click Administration.
3. In the navigation pane, under Notifications, right-click Channels. Click New and then click Command...
4. Type a name for the channel, such as SMS channel and optionally provide a description. Click Next.
5. In Full path of the command file: enter as following: c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe
   then in Command line parameters put “c:\temp\sendsms.ps1” -to [DELIVERY NUMBER] -message ‘$Data/Context/DataItem/AlertName$’
   then in Startup folder for the command line enter c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\
   Click Finish
6. In [DELIVERY NUMBER] put number of cellphone
7. As a result you should get your new just-added channel

• Create a new subscriber

In subscribers you define who or what will receive the notifications.

1. Go to Subscribers and create a new subscriber, with right-click and selecting New..
2. Add the following parameters:
3. Subscribers name, click Next
4. Schedule: Always send notifications, click Next
5. Address name: your previously saved name of your channel, click Next
6. Channel Type: Command
   Command Channel: your previously saved name of your channel, click Next
7. In Schedule choose: Always send notifications , click Finish
8. Subscriber is configured. Click Finish again.

• Create subscription

Here you configure which alerts go to which subscribers using what channel.

1. Go to Subscriptions and create a new subscription, with right-click and selecting New..
2. Name: your desired subscription name, click next
3. Criteria: Notify on all alerts, click next
4. In Subscribers choose Add: and select your just-added subscriber, click Ok to Add
5. Choose the channel where you want to the notification to go to by choosing Add.. and selecting your channel. Then add it by clicking OK. Click next
6. Press Finish

Test if notification is working by checking if :

1. Notification is downloaded
2. Notification is active
3. Create test alert and see if it’s raised