Target Alert Rule to Agentless computer

Peter Svensson 211 Reputation points
2020-09-02T07:50:03.593+00:00

I have configured a Windows Client as an agentless computer (actually a Windows 10 client). Its discovered and goes green in SCOM as a Windows Computer.
Only ping is enabled at this point.

I'm trying to enable an alert rule targeting Windows Computer, disabled by default and enabled to above computer using an Override.
However, it doesn't seem to get enabled.

Is this possible using agentless or do I have to install an actual agent on the client computer?

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  1. Peter Svensson 211 Reputation points
    2020-09-03T06:19:35.763+00:00

    Sorry, target was "Windows Computers"
    Amyway, I did get it to work eventually. But I didn't have success with my Override strangely enough.

    However, probably not going to use Agentless anyhow since it poses some other problems (like not showing the Event description for the alert in a proper way).

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  1. CyrAz 5,181 Reputation points
    2020-09-02T09:51:58.147+00:00

    Targeting "all windows computers" is wrong, whatever the workflow you're working on.
    This class is a group of windows computers. Targeting a group doesn't target the objects it contains.
    What's happening here is that a group is an "unhosted class", which means it exists on the Management Server's agent. So the rule is actually doing whatever it does for the Management Server, not your agentless win10 client.

    Once again, could you be more specific about what that rule does?

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