Dynamic Settings
Is it possible to make some items like Device Group names change dynamically across the LM system once changed at the Devices tab?
While the use of glob expressions certainly adds intricacy a...
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mnagel
Professor
ProfessorA larger issue here is that data references are often stored within LM as a name, not the object ID, so changing the name in one place divorces it from the object it was tied to. That can make sense for patterns, but not in other cases, like usernames (if you ever change a username, all references to the user are broken, including escalation chains). As far as dashboard tokens -- they are awesome, but not universally supported in all widgets, sadly (for example, Alert widgets do not support them).
+1 for custom properties in alert rules, as well as instance group references.
Thanks,
Mark
