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General SWQL guidelines for SolarWinds Platform products

This topic applies to all SolarWinds Platform products.

The following guidelines apply specifically to the use of SWQL in SolarWinds Platform products.

Fields that are used in multiple database tables, such as Caption or Status, must be preceded by the specific table. For example, use NodesData.Caption to display captions on nodes

Wildcards

The wildcard character in SWQL syntax is: %.

Example: NodesData.Caption Like 'AX3%'

Filtering by custom property

The property syntax to filter by custom property is:

dataType.CustomProperties.propertyName

Example filter to only show nodes with the custom property City that matches Atlanta:

Node.CustomProperties.City = 'Atlanta'

Filtering by built-in properties

Many properties have the same name between data types. To prevent ambiguity, the data type is a included as a prefix to the property names.

Examples

Example filter to show data from Cisco devices:

Node.Vendor = 'Cisco'

Example filter to show data from Windows Server 2003-2008 applications:

Application.Name = 'Windows Server 2003-2008'

Example filter to show data from devices beginning with "AX3":

Node.Caption Like 'AX3%'

Example filter to show data from Process Monitor – SNMP type component monitors:

Monitor.ComponentType = 8

Filtering by status

To filter by the status property, you must know the valid status levels.

Level

Status

0

Unknown

1

Up

2

Down

3

Warning

14

Critical

 

Example filter to only show monitors that are not down:

MonitorStatus.Availability<>2

Built-in SWQL nodes properties

Node.AvgResponseTime

Node.CPULoad

Node.Caption

Node.Contact

Node.DNS

Node.Description

Node.GroupStatus

Node.IOSImage

Node.IOSVersion

Node.IPAddress

Node.LastBoot

Node.LastSync

Node.Location

Node.MachineType

Node.MaxResponseTime

Node.MemoryUsed

Node.MinResponseTime

Node.NodeID

Node.ObjectSubType

Node.OrionID

Node.PercentLoss

Node.PercentMemoryUsed

Node.ResponseTime

Node.Severity

Node.Status

Node.StatusDescription

Node.SysName

Node.SysObjectID

Node.SystemUpTime

Node.TotalMemory

Node.Vendor

Node.VendorIcon

Node.ID