PingPlotter Standard Manual - Variable Substitution

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Variable Substitution

A number of the alert parameters allow you to insert a variable which will be substituted for a value when the alert happens. Here is a list.

$dest

The target destination's name (or IP Address if the IP didn't resolve to a name). This is different than $host because an alert might be attached to an intermediate hop, whose information is accessed via the $host variable(s). The final destination, though, is accessed via the $dest variable(s).

$destip

The destination IP address

$destname

The resolved DNS name for the destination

$host

Host name (or IP address, if no name exists). If used in an alert on a non-target hop, the alerting hop's information will be used.

$hostip

The host IP address

$hostdnsname

The resolved DNS name for the host

$year

Current Year

$month

Current Month

$day	Current day of month

$hour

Current hour

$minute

Current minute

$second

Current second

$date

Same as $year-$month-$day.

$time

The same as $hour$minute - note the absence of any punctuation - that's to make sure the file name is valid, if this mask is being used in a file name.