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rasc
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 Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 6:09 am Post subject: Alert action editor (notepad-like or object orientated) |
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Hi,
today I thought about making our alerts better (especially less often in the night) but that seems lots of work.
Same if a single email address changed and we had to adapt dozens of actions in a dozen of tests. Or to add scheduled actions.
At the end we do already have > 30 alert profiles and the point&click interface is nice but pretty inefficient.
I was glad if one either could edit the action.lst with a notepad-like editor which is able to do search&replace, copy&paste items (not whole tests, that's possible today) etc.
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at least had an object orientated editor which lets me paste a fully configured action object into an alert profile.
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KS-Soft
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Same if a single email address changed and we had to adapt dozens of actions in a dozen of tests |
When you need to use the same address for many actions, we recommend to use global macro variables
http://ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mframe.htm#actions.htm#udvmacro
| Quote: | I was glad if one either could edit the action.lst with a notepad-like editor which is able to do search&replace, copy&paste items (not whole tests, that's possible today) etc.
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at least had an object orientated editor which lets me paste a fully configured action object into an alert profile. |
We are thinking about some specialized search&replace option that can scan all actions, find the text within various fields, ask if you want to change this action and replace data.
Regards
Alex |
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rasc
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 8:34 am Post subject: |
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That's a good 1st step (though the search and replace came in very handy to change the configured email addresses into the new macro variables).
| KS-Soft wrote: | | We are thinking about some specialized search&replace option that can scan all actions, find the text within various fields, ask if you want to change this action and replace data. |
That's "not bad" but pretty limited. A better option was a Save-to-textfile for single actions (including all configured options) with an additional [Add] Item "Add from textfile". This should be easy to implement, don't you think?
That way one could edit actions relatively comfortable and quick. |
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rasc
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:00 am Post subject: |
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Thank you very much, and
 Happy New Year |
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KS-Soft
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 7:42 am Post subject: |
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Happy New Year!
Thank you |
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