Hi,
Please, can you help me how create a dynamic url to email a web page from NPM alert ?
Thanks
There's an alert action that lets you email a web page's contents. What do you mean by dynamic?
I've wondered this myself.
On the Edit E-mail Web Page Action dialog, there's a helpful looking link that says "How can I create a dynamic URL?" Unfortunately, clicking it leads to a generic help web page, http://www.solarwinds.com/NetPerfMon/SolarWinds/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm . Searching the Index or general Search further on either "Dynamic" or "URL" fails to produce usable results. There is info on using variables, however.
So we have to ask "What did SolarWinds mean by dynamic URL?"
What most of us want is a URL that refers to, say, the interface or device that caused the alert to be fired. Examples would be most helpful here. Most of the URL's I've seen on NOM have a 3 or 4 digit number for the interface, for example.
Also, the Preview URL button never works for me, at least not on Top Talker alerts. And elsewhere on Thwack, it's noted that one does not put a Web Server UserID or Password in the boxes provided, at least not for Top Talker alerts. So I have to wonder, what are those boxes for?
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If you go into the advanced alert you can insert variables into the text which change dynamically depending on the alert. To get the URL of the node all you would have to type is "${Node.NodesDetailsURL}"
For example if i wanted to make a link to hop from the email straight to the node which went down i would add:
<a href="${Node.NodesDetailsURL}">Node Page</a>
This would create a link that says "Node Page" that when clicked on would take me to the page of the node that went down.This bypasses the need to have to guess any of the IDs associated with the node or interface.
I'm having the same issue.
Same problem. There are 2 out of box alerts that comes with NTA, one for high receive and one for high transmit on monitored interfaces with top talkers. It includes a trigger to send an email with a web page that is the output of the NTA page of the offending interface. By default, it shows the last 5 minutes worth of netflow traffic. I am trying to change this to show the last 15 minutes, but not sure how to. The link in edit alert isn't helpful.
Were you ever able to get the NTA Top Talker email to display the last 15 minutes in the conversation instead of the default 5? I could have sworn I read something in one of these posts recently that referred to the file/template to edit to force the email alert show the last 15 minutes.
I just got the canned top talker alerts working with support last week and it seems that I do get a 99% utilization alert but the email shows me bytes for traffic and mostly 0.xx% utilization in the top 5 conversations?
Wonder if the alert is generated after traffic flow returned to normal. Figure I would include last 15 minutes instead.
Should I open a support ticket or is it a simple edit to a file?
Thanks for your time.
A dynamic URL In the Email a web page alert action is used to email the details of the object triggering the alert. In the alert action dialog, it's easiest to click on the Insert Variable button next to the Subject line and search for "URL". Copy the variable to paste in the URL field.
For example, enter ${N=SwisEntity;M=DetailsUrl} in the URL field to email the Details view of the object that triggered the alert. When the email is sent, the variable resolves to a valid URL such as http://myserver/Orion/View.aspx?NetObject=N:3 and the email contains the content of the Details view in the body.
Hope this is helpful!
