Bug 1030089

Description of problem:

I have a dynagroup of all agents (more than 100 members). I want to define an alert on the group members, so I add an alert definition to the group. After a little while, under the operations on the summary tab, I see the alert deployment failed.  I get the following error when clicking on the error symbol:


The following resources failed to invoke the operation: RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent,RHQ Agent

First, the error doesn't tell me anything I can use - what caused the error? Timeout? Not available? Failure codes?  Second, which hosts of the hundreds of nodes I have available failed?  

Can we get object names in the inventory prefixed with a hostname or something that makes it possible to identify items; in particular when it comes to object names that are similiar or the same across hosts, just using the detailed name is not helpful at all.

How reproducible:

Have not been able to make this work.
Have lots of hosts. Create dynagroup that includes all Agent definitions. Try to deploy a simple alert that goes off when the agent is unavailable. 

Actual results:

Not alerts seems to have been deployed.

Expected results:

Alert should be defined on all deployed agents.

Additional info:

For this alert I moved the alert into a template. However, this method does not work as we'll eventually subdivide hosts into major groups which may not share the same alerts.