Is in possible to use wildcards in sensor names?
We want our sensors to all include the name of the device to make identifying alerts and it would be a lot quicker to select all the Ping sensors for example and rename to "Ping %Server" than go through several hundred sensor names manually!
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This can be done using the PRTG API
Fitst create a list of all your PING sensors using the table.xml API call
/api/table.xml?content=sensors&output=xml&columns=objid,device,sensor&filter_type=ping
This will create a xlm result looking something like this:
<item>
<objid>2186</objid>
<device>Cisco 1800</device>
<sensor>Ping</sensor>
</item>
<item>
<objid>2188</objid>
<device>Alarm</device>
<sensor>Ping</sensor>
</item>
<item>
<objid>2190</objid>
<device>CCTV</device>
<sensor>Ping</sensor>
</item>
<item>
<objid>2192</objid>
<device>Cisco 2900</device>
<sensor>Ping</sensor>
</item>
You now have the objectID's of all your PING sensors with the name of their parent device.
Enumerating the XML result, use the rename API call to rename them to 'Ping Cisco 1800', 'Ping Alarm', 'Ping CCTV', ....
/api/rename.htm?id=2186&value=Ping%20Cisco%201800
/api/rename.htm?id=2188&value=Ping%20Alarm
Nov, 2015 - Permalink
This can be done using the PRTG API
Fitst create a list of all your PING sensors using the table.xml API call
This will create a xlm result looking something like this:
<item> <objid>2186</objid> <device>Cisco 1800</device> <sensor>Ping</sensor> </item> <item> <objid>2188</objid> <device>Alarm</device> <sensor>Ping</sensor> </item> <item> <objid>2190</objid> <device>CCTV</device> <sensor>Ping</sensor> </item> <item> <objid>2192</objid> <device>Cisco 2900</device> <sensor>Ping</sensor> </item>You now have the objectID's of all your PING sensors with the name of their parent device.
Enumerating the XML result, use the rename API call to rename them to 'Ping Cisco 1800', 'Ping Alarm', 'Ping CCTV', ....
Nov, 2015 - Permalink