Alert triggers using dates

Question

Hi - anyone got any idea whether an alert trigger can be configured with a date variable of today's date (which dynamically changes every day)

We have a custom propery called ContractExpiry that contains a value when a maintenance contract will expire. We would like to send out an alert when it is less than today's date (i.e. the contract has expired)

Unfortunately the alert engine only seems to support hard coded date variables as a trigger (eg 01/01/2001) rather than something like ${DateTime}

Thanks

FormerMember · Answer

All of the product managers read all of the posts for his or her product.  Your request has been noted.

stevehodg · Answer

Thanks - that works a treat.

If anyone from Solarwind is reading though, it would be nice if the alert engine could be more flexible with dates (such as supporting field entries such as today - 120 days)

Thanks again

Steve

qle · Answer

The closest field I found that could work as today's date is:

Network Nodes > Polling Details > Last Sync

However, it outputs in the following format:

8/21/2008 11:11:11 AM

I'm not sure if "Last Sync" can even be compared to your custom property since its output is different.