Details function

Details are extra elements created by a probe to display alert information that is not stored in a field of the alerts.status table. Alerts do not have detail information unless this information is added.

Detail elements are stored in the ObjectServer details table called alerts.details. To view details, double-click an alert and select Details.

You can add information to the details table by using the details function. The detail information is added when an alert is inserted, but not if it is deduplicated.

The following example adds the elements $a and $b to the alerts.details table:

details($a,$b)

The following example adds all of the alert information to the alerts.details table:

details($*)

Attention: You must only use $* when you are debugging or writing rules files. After using $* for long periods of time, the ObjectServer tables become very large and the performance of the ObjectServer suffers.

Example: Using the details function

In this example, the $Summary element is compared to the strings Incoming and Backup. If there is no match, the @Summary field is set to the string Please see details, and all of the information for the alert is added to the details table:

if (match($Summary, "Incoming"))
{
	@Summary = "Received a call"
}
else if(match($Summary, "Backup"))
{
	@Summary = "Attempting to back up"
}
else
{
	@Summary = "Please see details"
	details($*)
}