Standardisation of Variables Across All Products

Hello,

This is something that has caught me out quite a few times. For example sometimes NodeName will be ${NodeName} then othertimes it will be ${Node.NodeName} etc. It would be nice to have these standardised across all products and also available for use in scripts and other templates (eg Powershell only supports ${IP} and ${CREDENTIAL})

I was wanting to pass ${Community} ${AgentPort} among others for creating a Powershell OID monitor to translate textual values to numerical so that Warning/Critical alerts can be setup based on numerical value.

Thanks,

Peter

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aLTeReGo over 8 years ago in reply to deathunt +6
The following additional macros are now available in the SAM 6.0 RC (available now)
- ${USER}
- ${PASSWORD}
- ${PORT}
- ${Node.SysName}
- ${Node.Caption}
- ${Node.DNS}
- ${Node.ID}
- ${Component.ID}
- ${Component.Name}
- ${Application…
deathunt over 9 years ago +4

Indeed, having more macro acessible from argument woule be nice:
${ApplicationID}
${ComponentID}
${ApplicationTemplateID}
All script : Perl, vbscript or powershell...
aLTeReGo over 8 years ago in reply to leonardo.lopes +1

Allowing for additional SAM specific macros to be used in Network Atlas mouse hover tool tips is a feature request I'm tracking internally under FB255197.

ferrashoo over 3 years ago

This would seem like an easy fix for the product team. One more...
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alok.malvi over 3 years ago

It has been 7 years and looks like it is still not in place. We are planning to enable tons of alerts and integrate it with third party systems. It is annoying that I cannot create a single template and apply it on all. The variable (For ex: IP) is different for hardware, generic node, etc.
Will I have to find what the variables look like for each type of alert and then create as many conditions as the alerts? That does not seem efficient...!
In one of my Truesight integration ${IP} did not work...
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bobmarley over 4 years ago

Bump!
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uniswtc over 5 years ago

Yes, it should be there. Great idea.
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nrose over 5 years ago

I tried to create an email alert to identify when a node is deleted - the alert functioned fine but I can't get the IP address or even Node name because none of the variables are supported the auditing section !!!
I opened 5 or 6 tickets during the roll-out of a fresh SW implementation - 4 of those were to resolve issues in alerting & reporting , 3 of them cant be resolved at this point and have resulted in feature requests.
Seems to me like the alerting is far too silo'ed
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