[SCOM 2007 R2] Alert on every failed SQL job

Question

We want alert on every failed SQL Agent job.  However, we only get one alert.
We check that SQL 2000 would alert on every failed SQL job, but SQL 2005 & 2008 didn't behavior like that.
What should we do?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello Matt,
For auditing purposes we need to email every sql job failure and sql job success.  What I've seen is if the out of box "A(n) sql job failed to complete sucessfully", it will generate only one alert until the alert is manually resolved.
And the alert if generated from a server with many Sql instances, it will generate for each windows event the same alert for each instance.
If I create a rule and use "sql jobs" as the "rule target" for each application event every job generates an alert.
So, if we use "Last Run Status", when it's working, I've seen that if two failures are generated within the frequency interval specified "600" seconds by default only one alert is generated.
The MOM rule that uses this criteria from the Application event log:
Event Number equals '208'
 Source Name matches regular expression 'SQLServerAgent|SQLAgent.*'
 Parameter 1 doesn't match wildcard 'OnePoint - *'
 Parameter 3 matches regular expression '^(失败|Fehler|Failed|Error|Échec|Non[ ]riuscito|失敗|失敗|실패)$'  
As far as I can tell works fine. 
One other respondent recommends using "windows computer" as the "rule target".  I think this will have the same problem as the ootb rule and only generate an alert once.
I think potentially a rule that uses "agent job" as the rule target would work if in the criteria, we could add "description" contains "job name".   But the gui doen't expose "event description" as a criteria.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul