Manual ways to add devices/ sensors

Hi,

you can easily create a Template by yourself. Just rightclick the device you want to create a template for and click "create Template". The Template file will be created in \Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\devicetemplates and can be edited.
With this templates (you can choose more than one) you can run an Audodiscovery on a device or a group.

Hope this will be helpful to you.
Regards
Birk Guttmann

I'm sorry, i forgot to mention creating templates did not suffice. When running Auto Discovery with templates, it would just fill the group with all devices found in the given range and just add sensors for the ones that belonged to the template.

I would end up with a group filled with empty devices and just a few with sensors added to them.

The auto discovery has various options to limit the amount of discovered hosts:

• IP List
• IP Range
• Computers in a AD group
• DNS Names
• Entire networks based on their subnet

None of those suit you? :/ Auto-Discovery via PowerShell is something I thought about sometimes, but whichever way you look at it, it will be pretty painful and hard to maintain.

I've thought about the limits you mentioned, however an IP list is too much hand work everytime something has to be added (same goes for DNS names), a range is too global (it'll get too many devices i don't want/ need) and the same goes for entire networks and i need to monitor a lot more systems then just those connected to my AD.

summary: lots of different devices have to be added automatically with the corrosponding sensors.

I've looked into another option and thats using HTTP requests to add devices and sensors. The requests to do this are not part of the api. So instead of:

http://serveraddress.com:8080/api/request?parameter=value

i got:

http://serveraddress.com:8080/request?parameter=value

without the /api/ part. Would this be a viable option and does this work the same way it would when using the supported API HTTP requests?

What would be the correct HTTP call to add a new device? It should work, but consider it not supported, i.e. the call might change or be discarded/replaced in future versions :(

Thanks for the quick reply!

For adding a device the HTTP request would be: id=1&name_=%5Bname%5D&ipversion_=0&host_=%5Baddress%5D&hostv6_=&tags_=&deviceicon_=a_server_1.png&discoverytype_=0&devicetemplate_=1&devicetemplate_=1&discoveryschedule_=0&windowsconnection=0&windowsconnection=1&windowslogindomain_=&windowsloginusername_=&windowsloginpassword_=&linuxconnection=0&linuxconnection=1&linuxloginusername_=&linuxloginmode_=0&linuxloginpassword_=&privatekey_=&wbemprotocol_=https&wbemportmode_=0&wbemport_=5989&sshport_=22&sshelevatedrights_=1&elevationnamesudo_=&elevationnamesu_=&elevationpass_=&vmwareconnection=0&vmwareconnection=1&esxuser_=&esxpassword_=&esxprotocol_=0&dbcredentials=0&dbcredentials=1&usedbcustomport_=0&dbport_=&dbauth_=0&dbuser_=&dbpassword_=&dbtimeout_=60&snmpversiongroup=0&snmpversiongroup=1&snmpversion_=V2&snmpcommv1_=public&snmpcommv2_=public&snmpauthmode_=authpHMACMD596&snmpuser_=&snmpauthpass_=&snmpencmode_=DESPrivProtocol&snmpencpass_=&snmpcontext_=&snmpport_=161&snmptimeout_=5&accessgroup=0&accessgroup=1&accessrights_=1&accessrights_=1&accessrights_201=-1

Updates might become a problem indeed, thanks for mentioning. However if it saves me the trouble of adding devices manually i could consider staying with one version. Or inspect new versions for changes before updating.

As far is i could tell this is the only outside way to add devices or sensors with a script.

Quite a URL you got there - I've put it in a code wrapper so it's readable. Well, if it works for you, I got nothing more to add here :)

Hey there,

It's been a while :) i have another question regarding this topic though. As i've mentioned above adding sensors with the HTTP request worked. However, like Stephan noticed, it's quite a lenghty URL. When implementing this into a script it's barely readable because it's just lines of parameters. About 90% of the parameters are not used in my case, so i was wondering what happened if i just left out parameters?

I tried adding a device with just a couple relevant parameters (name, ip version, hostname, etc) and it worked.

My question is: what happens with the parameters that are left out? Are many of them just not being used? Or are they, when not given, just set to a default value?

I'm asking because i don't want to run into any trouble later on, because PRTG is missing information. Though question, but i thought i'd give it a try :)

Thanks in advance!

Great! Thanks!