SCOM is really starting to piss me off...

So, I've created a custom alert view in my Mgmt Pack. It relies on rules to determine what's populated in the view, and the rules apply to alerts that have been generated off of a custom Windows Event Log (which I've created).

Everything works fine...so long as you are on a machine where that Windows Event Log exists. If you are on another console, tough. The alerts will never load.

I thought it would be safe to assume that the rule I created earlier would comb the custom log (via the agent), populate alerts into the database, and then allow ALL consoles to view them. Silly me.