In this chapter, we covered a lot of content about alerting and reporting in OpsMgr. At the start, we discussed how to configure the various channel options for notifications and then demonstrated how to create new subscribers and subscriptions to forward alerts to.

We also showed you some options on testing your subscriptions along with demonstrating some handy tools to help manage those subscriptions on an ongoing basis.

The second half of the chapter discussed the Reporting feature and we walked you through how to run a basic report as well as giving you some tips and tricks on targeting to minimize troublesome blank reports.

You learnt how to save, export, schedule and publish reports and we demonstrated a little-known method of accessing saved reports through the Web console. We closed out the chapter by discussing some useful Microsoft and community reports that should give you even more options for gathering historical and health check data.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how to best backup, maintain and troubleshoot your OpsMgr environment.