Component Alerting Questions - I might be using some outdated SWQL

Greetings -

I have created various Applications to monitor our Citrix Environment. The Monitors are up and working just fine.

I have some questions about alerting on the components.

I was using this to report on a down component which works fine but it sends out an alert for each component that is down.

${N=SwisEntity;M=ComponentAlert.ComponentName} hosted on ${N=SwisEntity;M=Application.Node.Caption} has a status of ${N=SwisEntity;M=ComponentAlert.StatusOrErrorDescription}

I have some older alerts that use this and it lists the components that are down.

${N=SwisEntity;M=ApplicationAlert.ComponentsWithProblemsFormattedHtml} but if I use this in my current alert it fails.

I have tried this one as well and it fails

${N=SwisEntity;M=ApplicationAlert.ComponentsWithStatusFormatted}

I am wondering if the issue is because the alert is set to Component instead of Application? Or maybe these are just old SWQL and I need to brush up on things.

Thanks! -Dave

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adam.beedell

I am wondering if the issue is because the alert is set to Component instead of Application?
^ This is correct - Doing this at the component level would mean your macro would need to go up to application first

martian_monster

The issue was component instead of Application. I setup the alert using application and it worked like I wanted it to. Took a little bit but it started coming back to me.

adam.beedell

(You can do something like this for the component level if that's what you need, it'd just both be different and represent different stuff)