Re: Retrieve trigger action variables

Having been partly down this road when I built an alert validator, I think you could do the following:

1. Retrieve the ObjectType from the Alert definition
2. Retrieve the Trigger variables from the alert actions
3. If the variable contains a "." (period) in it, assume it goes to another table.
   1. Parse apart the variable and use a switch / case statement to go back into the db and get the variable value from the other table.
4. If the variable doesn't contain a ".", assume it comes from the table associated with the ObjectType from the Alert definition.

Example:

• Alert definition for my "MONITORING : Orion Application not UP" alert
  • ObjectType = APM: Application
  • pre-translate "APM: Application" into "APM_Application" (the actual table in the DB)
    
• Trigger action linked to this alert = send email
  • email subject line is:
    • ${Name} on ${Node.Caption} is ${Availability}
• ${Name} has no period in the name and therefore comes from Application  custom properties
• ${Availability} has no period in the name and therefore comes from Application  custom properties
• ${Node.Caption} has a period in it so go somewhere else
  • split apart the variable name into $table , $column
  • Goto $table and get value of $column

Rinse and repeat for other variables and parts of the alert action.

Sorry about the colouring of the text. I was doing copy-n-paste from my web-app.

Chris.