URL Custom Property

Opened this idea back up to voting. We are also tracking this internally under CORE-10923.

Unfortunately, this useful feature has been disabled again by Developers on the newer version of Solarwinds particularly NPM 12.3 due to security reason. But I am not sure what is the difference in terms of "security" if we will be executing the same script over the Custom Properties for Nodes resource over the Custom HTML resource.

I wouldn't call this implemented. The provided solution is just exploiting the fact that the web browser can interpret the html.

What I would like to see a Custom Property of type URL, and for Solarwinds to build the URL from a predetermined formula e.g.

The node might have an Asset ID: ABC12345 and I would like to be able to have the URL that comes up as say http://assetdb.myco.com/details.php?=AssetID=ABC12345.

The reason to have a URL builder is numerous:

1. To update all nodes with a new URL i.e. a new server say, you just update the Custom Node Settings once, rather than edit the value in each node.

2. The value is user friendly - its doesn't require people to know what they are doing in html (only the admin).

2. The variable can be used for other things (eg. in report scripts etc)

You can. Simply create a proper hyperlink in the custom property and it will be linkable through the Custom Property resource as shown below using the following example.

Insert "<a href="http://www.solarwinds.com">Visit SolarWinds</a>" as the value for your custom property as shown below for the "test" property".

When viewing the "Custom Properties for Nodes" resource you'll see this is now a hyperlink.