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I'm trying to add new amazon cloudwatch sensors using the prtg api from the command line. For example when a new EC2 instance is generated in Amazon, I want to add the new instance to PRTG. I have the access keys and can sample the Amazon API for the instance ID, but I'm not sure how to add it into PRTG automatically. Any ideas?

amazon api command-line script sensor

Created on Sep 27, 2012 8:18:58 PM



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Hello,

you can do this with the PRTG API, see "Setup"->"PRTG API"->"Object Manipulation":

  1. Duplicate the existing sensor: 
/api/duplicateobject.htm?id=id_of_sensor_to_clone&name=new_name&targetid=id_of_target_device
  1. Then use the setobjectproperty API-Call to change the Accesskey & Instance ID: 
/api/setobjectproperty.htm?id=10214&name=PROPERTY&value=

The properties for the Amazon Cloudwatch sensor are:

  • Accesskeyid
  • Secretaccesskeyid
  • Location
  • Service (static, cannot be changed on existing/cloned sensors)
  • instance

So it is important to only clone sensors for the same types of Amazon instances best regards.

Created on Sep 28, 2012 1:10:33 PM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]




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