Replaceable Tags

Alarm Configuration can be further enhanced by 'Replaceable Tags'. An email action is configured, if, for e.g., Tomcat Server goes down. While creating the E-Mail action, you can specify the "Message" as "This resource is running $HOSTNAME at port $PORT. If the Tomcat Server goes down, then email action is triggered with a message that contains the actual name of the Host and Port Number. Hereby the Dollar Tags are replaced with the host in which the tomcat server is running and the exact port of the tomcat server.

Further, if you want Applications Manager to pass arguments to Custom Scripts, which would be invoked as part of 'Execute Program Action', you can make use of Replaceable Tags.

For e.g., in 'Execute Program Action' , you can give the value for 'Program To Execute' to be
<run.bat $HOSTIP $MONITORNAME $PORT>

If the action is invoked then the $tags would be replaced with the then actual values say
<run.bat 191.167.111.27 MyServer 9090>

Note: Replaceable tags are supported in both Success and Failure Notifications, but they apply only to the Windows Services action.

Find below the dollar tag parameters that can be associated with their probable values.

Tag	Description
$MONITORNAME	Name of the Monitor
$MONITORGROUP	Name of the monitor group/ sub group/ web application group. Note: We can exclude any Monitor Group from this Replaceable tag by setting the ExcludeInMGReplaceableTag custom field value to true for the corresponding Monitor Group.
$ATTRIBUTE	Various Attributes like Health, Availability, etc.,
$ATTRIBUTEVALUE	Value of the attribute (eg., response time, memory usage,etc.,) that triggered the alarm.
$SEVERITYASNUMBER	1 (Critical/Down) 4 (Warning) 5 (Clear/Up)
$SEVERITY	Critical, Warning, Clear, Up and Down
$HOSTIP	The IP Address of the Host
$MONITORTYPE	Various Monitor Types like Tomcat-server, MYSQL-DB-server, Script Monitor, etc.,
$OBJECTNAME	MBean Object name when associated to Custom Monitor attributes
$HOSTNAME	Name of the Host
$PORT	Port Number
$DATE	Date and time at which the alarm was generated.
$OID	SNMP OID
$RCAMESSAGE	Root Cause Message like Average Response Time of SQS_Tomcat-server_9095 is critical because its value 652 > 10ms. [Threshold Details : Critical if value > 10, Warning if value = 10, Clear if value < 10]
$SHORT_MESSAGE	Displays the first 150 characters of the message from $RCAMESSAGE.
$CUSTOM_{COLUMN_NAME}	Displays the value of the column name specified for a tabular metric in a custom monitor. To use this tag, replace {COLUMN_NAME}with the exact (case-sensitive) column name of the tabular metric in the custom monitor. Example:$CUSTOM_name, $CUSTOM_AGE, where *name* and AGE are the column names of the custom monitor. Note: This tag is supported only for Script / Custom Monitor and Database Query Monitor.
$THRESHOLDMESSAGE	The message specified by the user for the different severity levels in Threshold Profile.
$URL	The URL of the monitor from where the action is triggered.
$TECHNICIAN	The user who acknowledges the alarm generated.
$ANNOTATION	Use the $ANNOTATION tag to add more details on a particular alarm
$STATUSFROM	Shows the time value in which the attribute's last status occurred
$Label	Custom Fields tag for the label of a resource.
$Configuration Item Id	Custom Fields tag for the Configuration Item ID of a resource.
$Department	Custom Fields tag for the department of a resource
$Description	Custom Fields tag giving the description of a resource.
$Location	Custom Fields tag for Location Details like Name, Floor, Building, City, State, Country and Postal code.
$User / Owner	Custom Fields tag for the user or owner assigned.
$ENTITY	Unique identifier for each monitoring object in Applications Manager. Will be in RESOURCEID_ATTRIBUTEID format, where RESOURCEID is unique for each monitor and ATTRIBUTEID is unique for each metric.
$GROUPHIERARCHY	List the hierarchy of monitor groups for a particular monitor/monitor group. Will work for all monitors and monitor groups
$RCAMSG_PLAINTEXT	Root Cause Message without any html content like: Average Response Time of SQS_Tomcat-server_9095 is critical because its value 652 > 10ms. [Threshold Details : Critical if value > 10, Warning if value = 10, Clear if value < 10] You can use it in the Program to Execute field in the Execute Program action.
$MONITOR_DETAILS_PAGE_URL	Displays the URL link redirecting to the monitor's overview page.
$ALERTID	Gives a unique ID to each newly generated alert.
$TIMESTAMP	Gives the timestamp of the current time in milliseconds format.

Limitation of Dollar tags

$ATTRIBUTE $DATE $MONITORNAME $MONITORGROUP $MONITORTYPE $RCAMESSAGE $SEVERITY $SEVERITYASNUMBER	These attributes will work for all the monitors / monitor groups
$HOSTIP $HOSTNAME $PORT	These attributes will not work for Monitor groups / URL / URL sequence monitor / Script Monitor / WMI counters / Web Services.
$OBJECTNAME	This will work only for JMX custom attributes.
$OID	This will work only for SNMP custom attributes.
$URL	This will work only for URL monitor.
$HOSTIP, $HOSTNAME	These will not work for Ping monitor and File monitor.
$ATTRIBUTEVALUE	These attribute tags will not work in the Enterprise Edition Central Server.

Note: The $ tags will not be replaced when you execute the actions manually and not supported in Alarm Escalation.

Replaceable Tags

Limitation of Dollar tags

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