First published on TECHNET on Sep 01, 2005
We had another one of those interesting threads on an internal distribution alias today about playing a sound when a new alert comes into MOM. While MOM doesnt support this natively, the contributors to this thread came up with some interesting options:
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Instead of or in addition to playing a sound you can have a beacon go off like this one:
Apparently someone wrote an MP to hook up to this device. Read more here (only in Japanese - sorry):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=108BA350-F8B8-47BE-8889-1859B5AD8C12&di...
Details on the device can be found here:
http://www.patlite.com/visible/nhm.htm
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You could use the speach APIs to actually have MOM read off the names of the alerts to you[:)]. Check out this article:
http://www.faqshop.com/mom/alerts/mom%20make%20sound%20or%20popup.htm#Top
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You could simply write a script similar to the one above which queries the DB through the MOM SDK looking for new alerts and use the Beep function in your favorite programming language.
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Also take a look at the Operator Console Notifier in the
Resource Kit
. It puts a item in your system tray and pops toast.
