How to create a SCOM Windows Events Monitor and alert on the Description field

When creating a monitor that alerts on event logs you may want to be able to monitor based on key words in the description field. This is not a default parmater and needs a few extra steps. But is still very easy to accomplish once you now the steps.

here are the two variables you will be adding to the monitor

parameter name: EventDescription

Alert description: $Data/EventDescription$

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