Passing a variable value in template

You can pass any of the following three as a parameter

${IP} Replaced with the target node’s IP Address. 
${USER} Replaced with the user name from the credential set 
${PASSWORD} Replaced with the password from the credential set.

Hopefully, your monitor accepts IP addresses in place of a hostname.

Thanks.. but it will not solve our issue as IPs will not be accepted by the database monitor

I understand. Hopefully, SolarWinds considers this as a request for an improvement of APM.

Has this been fixed yet? This really cripples APM on our network since I'll have to create individual templates for thousands of web sites. 

The ability to pass in 'custom' variables into templates would be huge.  We have used this functionality in the past to maintain consistent naming conventions as well as populate core monitor parameters.

This is a feature I would also like to see added. I am currently hacking around some things to use the ${IP} field to work in our environment, but to be able to pass in other variables would make things much easier.