Best practices for subcriptions of many servers

Question

Thinking of monitoring free space on my servers. Servers are 2003,2008,2012 (plus R2). Basing on
http://fehse.ca/2013/07/disk-space-monitoringcommon-practices/ - need to make three monitors for each version of server. So, the best practice is to create there groups based on version
condition. But we have many specialized servers (BizTalk, CRM, different application servers etc.) and want alert send to application admins. How can I implement such taks without creating a buch of groups based on application and override each monitor to
each group?

Answer 1

If you have multiple different teams, you will most likely need multiple different SCOM groups to organize your notifications and configure overrides against.  You could limit the number of groups you have to create by using the same group for both
the override and the notification to the app team.  For example, if you are looking to customize thresholds for the Biztalk servers, you would create a SCOM group and add the various logical disk objects to that group.  When you create your threshold
override, you will target that group of disk objects.  When you create your notification, you will scope the notification to the logical disk space monitor and this group of disk objects.  Beyond this there isn't much you can do to keep from creating
a bunch of groups.  You may actually have multiple groups for the Biztalk team even, if they are utilizing multiple os'es for their servers because you should not combine disks from different os versions into the same group as your overrides will not
work properly.