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Wildcards in Sensor names?

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Is in possible to use wildcards in sensor names?

We want our sensors to all include the name of the device to make identifying alerts and it would be a lot quicker to select all the Ping sensors for example and rename to "Ping %Server" than go through several hundred sensor names manually!

rename sensor wildcard

Created on Nov 6, 2015 12:00:44 PM



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This can be done using the PRTG API

Fitst create a list of all your PING sensors using the table.xml API call

/api/table.xml?content=sensors&output=xml&columns=objid,device,sensor&filter_type=ping

This will create a xlm result looking something like this:

   <item>
    <objid>2186</objid>
    <device>Cisco 1800</device>
    <sensor>Ping</sensor>
   </item>
   <item>
    <objid>2188</objid>
    <device>Alarm</device>
    <sensor>Ping</sensor>
   </item>
   <item>
    <objid>2190</objid>
    <device>CCTV</device>
    <sensor>Ping</sensor>
   </item>
   <item>
    <objid>2192</objid>
    <device>Cisco 2900</device>
    <sensor>Ping</sensor>
   </item>

You now have the objectID's of all your PING sensors with the name of their parent device.

Enumerating the XML result, use the rename API call to rename them to 'Ping Cisco 1800', 'Ping Alarm', 'Ping CCTV', ....

/api/rename.htm?id=2186&value=Ping%20Cisco%201800 
/api/rename.htm?id=2188&value=Ping%20Alarm

Created on Nov 9, 2015 3:35:45 PM




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