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MSIMON007_64454
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Mar 01, 2011

Alert for Pool Member down

Hello, I read the "how-to" override the alert messages (linked below) but I'm wondering if anyone has figured out how to utilize "$target" alert attributes. High-level, I need to find out how to cre...
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Julian_Balog_34's avatar
Julian_Balog_34
Historic F5 Account
Mar 01, 2011
Hi Mike,

You can achieve this by writing up the aggregate monitor to something like: 



  AvailabilityHealth
  
Error
true
Normal
Error

  $Target/Property[Type="F5.LTM.PoolMember"]/TargetIP$
  $Target/Property[Type="F5.LTM.PoolMember"]/MonitorState$
  $Target/Property[Type="F5.EnabledObject"]/AvailabilityState$
  $Target/Property[Type="F5.EnabledObject"]/AvailabilityReason$

  
  WorstOf

and then your corresponding alert message / display string would be something like: 



  F5 LTM Pool Member Monitor State Monitor
  F5 LTM Pool Member state monitor


  F5 LTM Pool Member State Monitor Alert
  F5 LTM Pool Member state monitor alert. Target IP: {0}, monitor state: {1}, state: {2}, reason: {3}.

If you follow the article mentioned above, you should be able to author everything inside an override pack. But keep in mind that our next release of the F5 Management Pack would make these types of overrides a lot easier, as it will provide out-of-the-box alerts for mostly all of the F5 monitors. And then you can just simply override the alerts.

Julian