SCOM 2012 - Question : Company knowledge

Hi everyone ..
I have a question about SCOM. We're using "Company Knowledge" to specify instructions on monitors / rules and my question is:
Is it possible to specify differents "Company Knowledge" depending of servers on a same monitor/rule? Or to use a variable (name server) directly in the word text ? Because according to the server, we need not resolve alerts in the same way.
Thank you !
Jérémy

I found a Management Pack who make exactly what i want. It's a workaround but in my case, it work fine !
Management pack : Research This
http://www.systemcentercentral.com/research-this-management-pack-updated-for-opsmgr-2012-scom/

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do so, it says "The network path was not found". If I click on the
... button next to the Computer field, it brings me to a Select Computer screen. In here, I am type in the computer name and then I click
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I tried to sort of force it in, instead of browsing for the computer and selecting the C drive. I simply put
LogicalDisk in for the Object then Free Megabytes for the Counter, then
C: for the Instance (as shown in the attached screen print.
Then I just applied my new rule to the computer via SCOM. I don't get any error messages when setting it up that way, but it certainly doesn't work.
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Thanks, that would probably do it, I'm going to keep that as my backup plan. However, my current feeling is that it might be a bit overkill to install a whole management pack, when all I want to do is monitor a single C drive on a single workstation.
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Hi,
As this thread has been quiet for a while, we assume that the issue has been resolved. At this time, we will mark it as "Answered" as the previous steps should be helpful for many similar scenarios.
In addition, we’d love to hear your feedback about the solution. By sharing your experience you can help other community members facing similar problems.
Thanks,
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TechNet Community Support
How could you possibly mark this as answered? No answer was given, it was quiet for a couple of days including one of which was a holiday in the US. The previous steps are NOT helpful. The question remains, Does anyone have it working?
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