Hello Dojo community,

I have a use case where I need to collect and correlate alarms from different network elements that use different protocols and alarm templates (ATs). Specifically:

• One alarm comes from an element that ingests SNMP traps and converts them into alarms, containing a lot of detailed information.
• The other alarm is a DataMiner system alarm triggered by a parameter threshold defined in the AT.

Goal:

I want to group these alarms by location name/Site name using a correlation rule, so that all related alarms are combined into a single alarm that displays additional relevant information for that scenario.

Current Issue:

I've successfully set up alarm filters to pick up all the required alarms. However, I'm struggling with grouping them correctly because:

• The alarms don’t share a common property that explicitly links them together.
• The only commonality is in the Element Name, where the first part of the string matches across all related alarms.
• I cannot modify the protocol to include additional information for grouping.

Question:

• Is there a way to group alarms dynamically based on a partial match of the Element Name (wildcard expression)?
• Can we use Custom Properties to automatically assign a grouping value (e.g., Site Name) when the alarm is raised, instead of manually adding it to each alarm?

Any insights or recommendations on how to achieve this within DataMiner would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!