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Luke_Parish1
2 years ago

Bulk add of monitored instance - Ping (Multi)-

I have been tasked with adding a large number of ping only monitored instances.  Is there so way to automate this process similar to the csv file for adding resource/devices? 
Joe_Williams's avatar
Joe_Williams
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2 years ago

The way we have done it is we have a script that loops through and creates the instances. We can’t go with the way Stuart does as we need to create instance level properties as well to pass on in alerting. You get your device id, device datasource id, then a simple loops.

datasourceinstancespath = "/device/devices/" + deviceid + "/devicedatasources/" + devicedatasourceid + "/instances"
with open('CLIENTPingOnly.csv', newline='', encoding='utf-8-sig') as csvfile:
    reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile)
    for row in reader:
        print(row['wildValue'])
        targetbody = json.dumps({
            "wildValue": row['wildValue'],
            "displayName": row['displayName'],
            "customProperties": [{"name": "sn.sys_id", "value": row['customProperties']}]
        })
        addinstance = lm_rest("POST", datasourceinstancespath, targetbody, "")