All down components in a single email for a single node

Question

We monitor multiple services on our servers individually (cluster service, MSDTC, etc) and when we get alerts for a down service the email is for each individual service.

How can I format the alert to have all the down services (that we want to monitor) for a single node in one email?

Currently, I'm using these SQL variables:

Components down on ${N=SwisEntity;M=Application.Node.DisplayName}:

${N=SwisEntity;M=Application.ApplicationAlert.ComponentsWithProblems}

Thanks everyone

aLTeReGo · Accepted Answer

That will work, provided all the components that are being monitored are contained within a single application template. Here's break it down.

Let's say you have two monitored applications that are dependant upon each other running on the same server. AppA and AppB. Let's also say when "AppA" crashes, "AppB" is also down because of its dependance upon "AppA". The alert above will notify you with two separate alerts. One for "AppA" and another for "AppB". To reduce this down to a single alert notification, you would need to combine the components from "AppA" and "AppB" into a single application template.