When System Center Operations Manager alerts you to issues in your IT environment, Vital Signs is the perfect tool to quickly pinpoint and resolve the root cause of the problem. Vital Signs will automatically pull in the most current alerts from Operations Manager and display them in the context of the ever-evolving, real-time monitoring data. Further, historical data retrieved from Operations Manager will show you how your applications and servers should be performing. In this post, we will show a tiny feature that will enable you to get quickly from alert to cause to resolution.
Once you have received an alert in System Center Operations Manager and have discovered the impacted applications, services, and servers, you will want to get Vital Signs up and running as soon as possible. To do so, we have provided simple launch tasks within Operations Manager that will instantly bring up the Vital Signs dashboard that pertains to the objects you are currently looking at.

How do you install these tasks? Once you have carried out the one-time integration between Operations Manager and Vital Signs, simply bring up the context menu within Vital Signs and choose “Add Tasks”. Vital Signs will then insert the launch tasks into Operations Manager for you.

Are you running Live Maps to visualize your IT environment? If so, then you can launch Vital Signs from within your maps as well. Simply bring up the context menu, select “Open”, and then “Vital Signs.”

While this may be a minor feature, we believe it is important to do whatever we can to speed you on your way to problem resolution.

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