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Shack
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5 months ago

Collector Name Property

I need to set a property on my collectors that equals the name of the collector.  Name meaning the name of the server.  

##HOST## cannot be used during collector down events and all we have to work with is ##AGENT_DESCRIPTION## which can be set to anything.

Does anyone have a script that will get the name of the collector and set the value as a custom collector property?

I feel like a token for this should exist and I am pretty sure I put this in as a suggestion years ago.  

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    5 months ago

    Why not just make the ##AGENT_DESCRIPTION## have the value of the collector's host's name?

    LM borked their website and both the swagger and sdk docs are giving 404 errors. Otherwise I'd point you to it.

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    Shack
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    5 months ago

    That was my other thought but when I was looking at the API docs I didn't see a way to update the collector description.  Might of read through it too fast.  

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    Anonymous
    5 months ago

    The hostname field in the API response should have the name of the device. Looks like this should do it:

    from lm import lm
collectors = {x.id:x for x in lm.get_collector_list(size=1000).items}
for id, collector in collectors.items():
    if collector.description != collector.hostname:
        result = lm.update_collector_by_id(id,{"description": collector.hostname, "collectorGroupId": collector.collector_group_id})
        print(f"Collector {id}\n\tOld description: {collector.description}\n\tNew description: {result.description}")