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Re: Tips or Tweaks for controlling when a daily ConfigSource runs?
Oh and for any seeming discrepancies in “inherited a bunch” and “only a few”, the first descriptor was emotional, the second was literal. :) I ported maybe 12 of them off python and over to groovy (they were already configsources someone else wrote using external python). :)5Views0likes0CommentsRe: Tips or Tweaks for controlling when a daily ConfigSource runs?
I assume you’re doing it as a configsource because you want to save the output of the script as a blob of text, readable from LM? Have you considered containerizing your python script and pushing the logs to LM Logs via the API? My main reasons (probably all bad? :)) would be: I want the daily results shown in the text so that people can make note of when an action happened I am in a weird position where I dont have easy access to any collectors where the python would run. When I “inherited” the “portal admin” dutues all of a sudden, I inherited a bunch of python scripts my predecessor wrote that just run on a windows collector. But I dont really have easy access to that collector, so I ported all of them away from external python (there were only a few). It is super tedious to have to get permission to maintain the code each time. So I wanted it all in-platform for LM. I generally want the code to be native groovy or powershell anyway, because in case I get hit by a bus or something, I want someone else coming in to look at the config source to be able to literally see the code there in the LM platform. I got in the (bad?) habit of doing all our platform scripts as config sources, all running against our portal resource object, so habit I suppose. As for LM Logs, I’ve never had need to use them. I think there are some basic log-related functionalities I’ve never needed to use, and I seem to recall that the fancy LM Logs thing is a pay-for feature. Not sure.5Views0likes0CommentsTips or Tweaks for controlling when a daily ConfigSource runs?
I have a config source, that really under the hood is doing some other task, a coding task, and it used to conveniently run every day at 22:47 or something like that, but because of reasons, now it runs at 10:05 every morning. This is some ancient script someone else wrote in python and it runs on a collector. I’ll probably convert it to be groovy, and have it run hourly, but only act when the hour digit on the time is 22 or something wacky. But short of that, it did have me wonder, are there any tricky ways to change when a daily config source runs? Because from what I can tell, they run at the time they were made, or I guess at the last time the collector went down because of a domain password problem :) *cough*. I could just try a meaningless edit on the ConfigSource and see if that does it. I dont think bouncing the collector service will do it because on rare occasion the service restarts at a time other than its normal time and that doesnt change CS run times. Just wondering if anyone has any tips or tricks? I’ll probably just rewrite this to run hourly but act only on a specific hour of the day. But just fishing for ideas. I really wish we could schedule ConfigSources like we can reports. Thanks!62Views5likes7CommentsRe: API Groovy HttpPatch?
Oh and, while I may go ahead and try the patch option, generally speaking, since my GET was actually with a filter looking for autoBalancedCollectorGroupId:0 as well as a target collector group in the filter, I’m already doing a GET that gives me all the objects back and I have their json data in memory. So at that point, what are the cons of using a PUT given that I already have the object, can just change the value in the JSON, prep the data for the PUT, and do the PUT. Is it problematic or is PATCH still the way to go, assuming I can get it working?7Views0likes0CommentsRe: API Groovy HttpPatch?
I will bookmark it too. The interesting thing is that my initial code was in Python, before I decided “nah, its time to go all-in on the Groovy” and I did a patch without specifying opType=replace, but it didnt reset any of my custom properties or anything, but it did update the autobalance as I expected. Not sure if I dodged a bullet there or just got lucky. :) Thanks!7Views0likes0CommentsRe: API Groovy HttpPatch?
I am curious where that documentation was, that you quoted. I went to the link you sent, but I couldnt find that anywhere. I DID FIND the Patch section for devices, and I see the opType …. if you hadnt pointed out the differences between refresh (default) and replace, I might have tried it and been regretful. :) https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/rest-api-developers-guide/v1/devices/update-a-device The only reason I did the GET-tweak-PUT is because the groovy code didnt give a patch example. I DID manage to get Python code on my own working with patch before even looking at the link above, but I am moving away from doing anything in Python if possible, because I’d like to stick to code that is native to the portal (Groovy, Powershell). Thanks for the response! I’ll see if I can get Patch to work with the opType set to the correct thing, and I’ll export my target device as I try it. Cheers!5Views0likes0CommentsAPI Groovy HttpPatch?
Is it possible to do an HttpPatch, or to use the PATCH verb, when updating devices? I looked over on one of the LM pages for updataing devices with the API and as usual, most of the examples were in Python, but PUT did have one Groovy example, but PATCH did not. I’ve seen mention somewhere that at some point PATCH would be supported, wondering if it is or not. I ended up getting my script working with a Get (so I dont lose all my device custom settings etc) and then changing theautoBalancedCollectorGroupId value, and then doing a PUT and it worked, and I didnt lose any of my custom properties. And I have a working filter all set up to run it against a target set of devices. But still, I would rather just patch the fields I want without risk. I’m wondering if thats possible, or if GET/tweak/PUT is still the main go-to?Solved58Views9likes9CommentsRe: Do you use the New UIv4? Any lost functionality?
I will try the alert tuning with it. I assume you mean customizing thresholds? I was super gung ho to try it last week and then, as soon as I needed it for real and couldnt find the instance counts on my collectors (only resources) I lost my motivation. :) I will keep trying, I guess.21Views0likes0CommentsDo you use the New UIv4? Any lost functionality?
I’m curious to what degree other power users here actually use the new UI? I took it as a challenge myself this week to start using it since it seems LM is committed to using it. I’m not a fan, but I’m not sure how much of that is just because its new. I struggle to find some things. It took me way too long to find out where the collector debug option was hidden. And I still cant find the “instances” count in the columns of information where it used to be, and I don’t see it as a column I can add. So I’m just wondering, do you all like the new UI? Do you use it? Are there important places where you have lost functionality or information? Thanks!79Views13likes4Comments