Set threshold for specific instance on all devices

I found this impossible without an API script.  I initially wrote one to address the non-group-ness of instance groups (like groups of drives), but my script handles device groups, DSes and DS instances, too.   No idea if/when anything like that will be possible in the UI, but at least there is an API approach possible!  The logic is in the code below, though this relies on a module I wrote to encapsulate the API access stuff.  Still, hopefully useful.

Mark

verbose 2, "scanning device group $DEVICEGROUP\n";
if (my $groups  = $lmapi->get_all(path => "/device/groups", filter => "name:$DEVICEGROUP")) {
    if (@$groups == 1) {
        my $devices  = $lmapi->get_all(path => "/device/groups/$groups->[0]->{id}/devices");
        for my $device (@$devices) {
            my $deviceName = $device->{displayName};
            verbose 2, "scanning device $deviceName\n";
            my $devicedatasources  = $lmapi->get_all(path => "/device/devices/$device->{id}/devicedatasources", filter=>"dataSourceName:$DATASOURCENAME");
            for my $devicedatasource (@$devicedatasources) {
                my @dsfilter;
                if (defined $INSTANCEGROUP) {
                    @dsfilter = ( filter=>"groupName${INSTANCEGROUPOP}${INSTANCEGROUP}" );
                }
                my $instances  = $lmapi->get_all(path => "/device/devices/$device->{id}/devicedatasources/$devicedatasource->{id}/instances", @dsfilter);
                for my $instance (@$instances) {
                    my $alertsettingspath = "/device/devices/$device->{id}/devicedatasources/$devicedatasource->{id}/instances/$instance->{id}/alertsettings";
                    if (my $alertsettings = $lmapi->get_all(path => $alertsettingspath, filter=>"dataPointName:$DATAPOINTNAME")) {
                        my $myAlertExpr = $alertsettings->[0]->{alertExpr};
                        for my $alertsetting (@$alertsettings) {
                            verbose 2, sprintf(" current alert settings: %s: alertExpr=%s\n", $alertsetting->{dataSourceInstanceAlias}, $myAlertExpr);

                            my $content;
                            if (not defined $ALERTEXPR) {
                                $content = to_json({ });
                            }
                            elsif ($ALERTEXPR ne $myAlertExpr) {
                                $content = to_json({ alertExpr => $ALERTEXPR });
                            }
                            if (defined $content) {
                                verbose 1, "committing change to $device->{displayName}:$alertsetting->{dataSourceInstanceAlias}:${DATASOURCENAME}:${DATAPOINTNAME}\n\t$content\n";
                                if ($DRYRUN) {
                                    print qq(put(path => "$alertsettingspath/$alertsettings->[0]->{id}", content => $content)), "\n";
                                }
                                else {
                                    $lmapi->put(path => "$alertsettingspath/$alertsettings->[0]->{id}", content => $content);
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    else {
                        warn "ERROR: failed to get alertsettings: path = $alertsettingspath\n";
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    else {
        warn "ERROR: found @{[scalar @$groups]} device groups when enumerating device group: $DEVICEGROUP\n";
    }
}
else {
    warn "ERROR: unable to enumerate device group: $DEVICEGROUP\n";
}

Mark, thank you for the idea.

I ended up creating new datasource that is the copy of the datasource i need (.NETCLRMemory in my case) but with filter to discover only one instance that i need (RTW.Scheduler). After that i set appropriate threshold for all devices at once.

I don't think that it's a good idea (because i actually run the same datasource twice on each device) but i could do it with UI :)/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" title=":)" width="20">

Understood.  I think that cloning in its current form creates the equivalent of unmaintainable spaghetti code, so I try to avoid it as much as possible even though it is the GOTO (:)) solution for tech support.  Glad you found a way out, though :).

Regards,
Mark