I want to get Nag notifications until ISSUE IS RESOLVED - SCOM 2012

There are certain critical alerts that I want to continue to page until the issue is resolved. There has to be a simple way to do this. I have alot of sleepy guys on my team that will sleep thru one page.

You can setup a timed script in scom to run a script similar to that
every X hours, and then you're set.
script looks like this
# Start Ops Mgr snapin
$rootMS = '<RMSName>'
#Initializing the Ops Mgr 2007 Powershell provider
add-pssnapin "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client"
-ErrorVariable errSnapin ;
set-location "OperationsManagerMonitoring::" -ErrorVariable errSnapin ;
new-managementGroupConnection -ConnectionString:$rootMS -ErrorVariable
errSnapin ;
set-location $rootMS -ErrorVariable errSnapin ;
# Get all new (0) alerts that includes *SQL* in the name or description
$alerts = get-alert | where {$_.ResolutionState -eq "0"}
foreach($alert in $alerts)
#$alert.Resolutionstate = "1"
$alert.update("")
# Remove the Ops Mgr PSSnapin
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