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18 Dell Compellent Storage Center Management Pack 3.0 for Microsoft SCOM 2012/R2 Best Practices
5 Overrides
Overrides are used in SCOM to change monitoring settings for monitors, attributes, object discoveries, and
rules. Overrides can be applied to individual objects, or groups of objects.
The Dell Compellent Management Pack 3.0 is preconfigured with monitors that do not require any
configuration, although overrides can be used to modify the default configuration.
Note: Overrides can only be created for targets in the following Dell Compellent Management Pack
objects: monitors, object discoveries and rules.
Figure 10 Management pack objects
In SCOM 2012/R2, overrides can be created from the Monitoring or Authoring pane.
5.1 Creating an override from the Monitoring pane
To create an override from the Monitoring pane:
1. Right-click an active alert and click Overrides > Override the Rule and then select an option to
create an override for.
- For the specific alerted object
- For all objects of the class the object belongs to
- For a group
- For a specific object of the current class
- For all objects of another class