Create a ${ContainerID} variable, to be used in SWQL for group filtering.

solarview

Hi Solarwinds development team,

We, and I think many others, want to be able to filter out messages for nodes belonging to a specific container (group), on the "Group Details" page in Solarwinds NPM.

If you select a specific group from the "Group Summary page" , the selected Container-ID should be available as a parameter, in the "Group Details" page.

In fact ContainerID is a field in the container table in the SW Database.

If this ${ContainerID} parameter  was available as a parameter, we could build a custom SWQL query for it. 

However on the current Group Details Page, NPM (v.10.6) is using container ID information to generate the last XX Group events for that specific group aka container...  Maybe there is already a (hidden) variable, that has been used to achieve this ?

Regards,

Sef Konings

solarview

In the meantime, I have found a workaround to overcome this. The ${containerID} is not available yet, but you can use the ${Caption} instead. This parameter contains the selected group in the Group Summary page.