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Question regarding Alert Contents

I am testing a "Down Node" automatic e-mail alert and have come across a strange scenario.

The e-mail alert has the following :

Subject: ${Node.Building} - ${NodeName} ${Status}

Message: ${Node.Building} - ${NodeName} (${Node.IP_Address}) is ${Status}

${DateTime}

The issue I just experienced is that I tested it on a node that is actually down, and what happened is I got a different IP address than the node has, even though the node name was correct. I even verified with an sql query on the database, the proper ip address is in the database but the e-mail contained a different one.

Anyone know why a different ip address would be sent?

Thanks

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Questionario

the test alert function is only to test for the trigger actions...

apparently sometimes you dont get the expected output, this does not mean that the alarm will show the same, if the alert triggers for real without "testing" the correct information should be displayed

zhollett

... really?

FormerMember

Really. The test feature has always been useless.