I’ve been working on a System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 deployment recently. Now that Microsoft have made Service Pack 1 fully available it appears the normal Alert URL is somewhat broken.

The original Alert URL looks something like this: http://scomwebserver/OperationsManager/default.aspx?DisplayMode=Pivot&ViewType=AlertView&AlertID=$UrlEncodeData/Context/DataItem/AlertId$
However since the installation of Service Pack 1 the Alert View never actually completes loading.

The workaround for the time being is to update the Alert URL in your Channel Notification to: http://scomwebserver/MonitoringView/default.aspx?DisplayMode=Pivot&ViewType=AlertView&AlertID=$UrlEncodeData/Context/DataItem/AlertId$
This works, but you must first authenticate at the /OperationsManager URL first as it appears that authentication fails if you browse to the MonitoringView without having visited the OperationsManager URL first!

A pretty irritating problem, hopefully it won’t take long for MS to release a fix. Cumulative Update 1 for SP1 was released pretty quickly after the release of SP1.
I’ll post an update once a fix has been released.

James