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Updated Percent Variables
The online help for percent variables is missing a few of the available variables. Here is a full list of the variables that are available in WhatsUp Professional.

% Variable Description
%Device.Attribute Info Line 1 Device properties
Append the category to the end of the variable.
Example: %Device.Attribute.Contact
Default categories:
  • * - Returns all attributes
  • Info1 - Upgrade path from v8
  • Info2 - Upgrade path from v8
  • Contact - Contact info from SNMP
  • Location - Location info from SNMP
  • Description - Description info from SNMP
%Device.Address IP address from the General section of device properties
%Device.Type Device Type from the General section of device properties
%Device.HostName Host Name from the General section of device properties
%PassiveMonitor.LoggedText Detailed Event description. (SNMP traps - Returns the full SNMP trap text.) (Windows Log Entries - Returns information contained in the Windows Event Log entries.) (Syslog Entries - Returns the text contained in the Syslog message.)
%PassiveMonitor.Payload.* Payload generated by a passive monitor.
%Device.Notes Notes from the Notes section of device properties
%Device.DisplayName Display Name from the General section of device properties
%Device.SNMPOid SNMP Object identifier. This is the word "unknown" if SNMP Object box is blank.
%Device.Status Device status (such as "timed out" or "did not respond")
%Device.SNMPReadCommunity SNMP Community
%Device.State The state's description (such as "Down at least 2 min" or "Up at least 5 min"
%ActiveMonitor.State Names of down services or monitors, followed by the word "Services"
%Device.SNMPWriteCommunity SNMP Write Community (from SNMP section of device properties)
%Device.ActiveMonitorUpNames Full service names of all UP monitored services on a device
%Device.ActiveMonitorDownNames List of down services using the abbreviated name if available
%System.NumberofDownDevices Number of down devices
%System.DisplayNamesDownDevices Display names of devices with down monitors
%System.NumberofUpDevices Number of up devices
%System.DisplayNamesUpDevices Display names of up devices
%System.Date The current system date. The format is mm/dd/yyyy
%System.Time The current system time. The format is hh:mm:ss

 
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