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Macro definitions in Alerts

I'll post this here, since it's been nearly a full week since I opened a ticket with Support and have yet to receive a response back.

I need to be able to call up some Node custom properties from within my advanced alert actions, but they are unavailable by default. I had posted about this before and kind of received an answer, but I need more information. Specifically, I am creating a custom node table poller, but I need to be able to call custom properties from other tables such as the Nodes table from within my email alert actions. For instance, I need to be able to call the ${N=SwisEntity;M=Node.CustomProperties.Comments} macro from within the alert action for my table poller, but it's not working. I want to do something similar to what this user suggests:

https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/272908#272908

If I can get an example that does exactly what I want above, I can likely figure out the rest of the macros I need myself.

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joe.tran

We use ${Node.CustomPropertyName} in our alert definitions and they work without issue for all of our alert definitions. For example we have a Nodes Custom Property called Comments, the associated macro is ${Node.Comments}.

Looks like if you want to us the new macro naming conventions you have to use the appropriate macro for that alert type.

If your alert definition is for Nodes, then the macro is ${N=SwisEntity;M=CustomProperties.Comments}.

For Volumes and Interfaces, the macro is ${N=SwisEntity;M=Node.CustomProperties.Comments}.

I haven't spent time to try to decipher what the pattern is for the new macros and just rely on the "Insert Variable" button

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joe.tran

Looks like if you want to us the new macro naming conventions you have to use the appropriate macro for that alert type.

If your alert definition is for Nodes, then the macro is ${N=SwisEntity;M=CustomProperties.Comments}.

For Volumes and Interfaces, the macro is ${N=SwisEntity;M=Node.CustomProperties.Comments}.

I haven't spent time to try to decipher what the pattern is for the new macros and just rely on the "Insert Variable" button

bleearg13

The node variables are not available from within an alert that is configured as a Custom Node Table Poller alert. They are available in other types of alerts, but not all macros are available in all types of alerts. See:

Group member alert

If you use the macros that are not available, all you get in your alerts are the actual definitions of the macros, not the values contained within the macros.

joe.tran

I don't have any alert definitions for Custom Node Tables, but the variable wizard tells me that Node Custom properties are available as ${N=SwisEntity;M=CustomPollerAssignment.Node.CustomProperties.Comments}.

You're right, the Node Custom Property macros aren't available for Group Members. You can use a SQL Variable to get the property though.

Something like... ${SQL: SELECT n.Comments FROM ContainerMemberSnapShots gm INNER JOIN Nodes n ON gm.EntityID = n.NodeID WHERE gm.MemberUri = ${N=SwisEntity;M=MemberUri} AND gm.ContaintID = ${N=SwisEntity;M=Container.ContainerID} }

bleearg13

Hmm...which version are you on? I'm on 11.5.2 and I don't have the ability to choose Node properties from within the 'Insert Variable' option.