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Created on Dec 3, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Hostname variable to be used when copying configuration items in the GUI

Currently if you copy configuration items that include a report detail (e.g Malware configuration) the Scan report title will include the source system name as text. This should populate as the correct host name on each target for the copy, otherwise each config has to be edited manually, negating the whole benefit of copying configs.

I am sure there are plenty of places where these variables would be useful (alerting configs for example), and it would be good to have one for the group name as well, in case that is used to populate report titles as well.

And if you're feeling creative a group config could also contain metadata such as an escalation email which can, again, be referred to with a variable when copying configurations. This sort of detail is really helpful for, e.g. MSPs who will not have a single email for all reports to be sent to , and who may have dozens of groups, with potentially hundreds of systems in a group.

Consider implementing subgroups too? 

Oh, and if you do implement these, can they go into the syslog records as the evaluated item, not the variable? :D 

Idea priority High

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