I've been working with Hostmon for a couple years now and have always tried to think of ways on how to manage Action Profiles but it always feels like I need to create 'workarounds'.
I feel that it would be INSANELY INCREDIBLY useful to allow for unlimited action profiles to be assigned to tests.
Why limit this to just two? I feel so restricted just thinking about it.
I'm finding that I need to create multiple alert profiles which are only slightly different.
i.e.
- We have 3 tests (T1, T2, T3) which needs to have 3 recipients alerted (R1, R2, R3)
- R1 has its own action profile created (AP1) and is applied to all tests by default
- R2 and R3 have had their own action profile created (AP2)
- AP1 and AP2 is applied to multiple tests (T1, T2, T3)
If we have another test (T4) created with same recipients + 1 extra (R4), there is no way to add R4 to the alert because:
- All T4 action profile slots are already filled with AP1 and AP2
- If we add R4 to AP2 which is applied to T4 then R4 will now also receive alerts for T1, T2, and T3.
This gets worse when we add in SMS alerts and whatever else next to Email alerts.
It would be a lot simpler, cleaner, smoother, easier to manage if we had:
Action Profiles for:
- 2 Categories (Email and SMS) (or more categories for other things if you want. You can actually take this competely out as we could just rename the action profiles to 'categorise' the alert profiles ourselves)
- Each individual recipient/group
This way you can specifically add the recipients you want to any test.
Awesome idea and surely it wouldn't be too hard to implement. Who else thinks so??? Worth a million bucks I reckon.
(P.S. sorry if my example was not clear or too long to read
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