Hello, I would like to be able to build a powershell script that would allow me to interface with APIs on a server and get the values ??from prtg.

when I use the query:

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://192.168.168.101/xmlapi/?token=GyeC3sfAMPZojC..." -UsersOutBody \ text-xml Admin \ "-MethodBody \ text \ body \ xml Administrator \" -MethodutB \ body \ $ xmlAdmin \ "-UsersOutBody \ $ xml $ body = @ " <? xml version = "1.0"?> <xml> <object> controllerstaterx </object> <action> select </action> <id> 4 </id> </xml> "@

I have the following result:

<? xml version = "1.0"?> <xml> <result> <type> success </type> <message> </message> <errno> 0 </errno> <id> 4 </id> </result> <data> <bdrf> 65.6 </bdrf> <cn> 25 </cn> <rfl> 56.8 </rfl> <cn_sta_avg> 12.9 </cn_sta_avg> <cn_con_avg> 8.8 </cn_con_avg> <id> 4 </id> <hub_network_id> 1 </hub_network_id> <controller_id> 4 </controller_id> <packets> 0 </packets> <bad_state> 2021-11-19 07:29:10 </bad_state> <good_state> 2021-11-19 10:18:10 </good_state> <updated> 2021-11-19 10:18:05 </updated> <state> 17 </state> <channel> 4 </channel> <frlen> 256 </frlen> <rqsl> 3 </rqsl> <guarq> 3 </guarq> <totrq> 3 </totrq> <rtrq> 0 </rtrq> <upst> 5 </upst> <actst> 3 </actst> <hblow> 5 </hblow> <stlow> 0 </stlow> <rxspd> 10128 </rxspd> <platform> 34 </platform> <hardware> 1466715 </hardware> <hardware_errors> 0 </hardware_errors> <config_errors> 0 </config_errors> <license> 6146 </license> <configurable_profiles> 2147483647 </configurable_profiles> <licensed_profiles> 2147000307 </licensed_profiles> <faults> 0 </faults> </data> </xml>

My question: how to be able to create a power shell script to retrieve this result in the "form requested by the PRTG system

Thanks for your help jérémy

Article Comments

Hi there,

First of all it depends which information should displayed in PRTG. Since the output is an XML you may work with the cmdlet Select-Xml in your script to filter the data you want to display.
Afterwards PRTG expect following to create channels and display your values:

           <prtg>
           <result>
           <channel>First channel</channel>
           <value>10</value>
           </result>
           <result>
           <channel>Second channel</channel>
           <value>20</value>
           </result>
           </prtg>

Kind regards

Felix Wiesneth - Team Tech Support


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