Thanks for the lead, Andre!
I had to change the conditions to status_event equals alert and it works beautifully.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Andre Geißler <andre@geisslermail.de> wrote:
I did it that way

Name: ASA Failover
Test: status_event equals warning
Device Match: hostname match blabla
Entity Match: status_descr match *primary*

Cheers,
Andre

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