Brian Hansen wraps up a three-part series on scheduled job alerts:
The first two parts of this series addressed the general approach that I use in an SSIS script task to discover and alert on missed SQL Agent jobs. With apologies for the delay in producing this final post in the series, here I bring these approaches together and present the complete package.
To create the SSIS, start with an empty SSIS package and add a data flow task. In the task, add the following transformations.
Regardless of how you do it, knowing when jobs fail is important enough to build some infrastructure around answering this question.