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Auto Registering/Pending Notification about HTTP Push Sensors

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I'm working with the HTTP Push Sensor and HTTP Push advanced Sensors. They are great to run the Code on the monitored machine and simply send the results to PRTG for storing and visualizing the data. The PRTG Installation load is lowered by not using remotePowershell, SSH or similar.

At the Moment i have to add the HTTP-Push Sensor in the configuration with a Token and also add that token to the Code on the remote machine. If a scripts sends an invalid token, i can only see that on the machine by a "Matching sensor = 0"-Result.

Is (or will) there be a way, to get an Information at the PRTG-Server about a "unknown" HTTP Push Sensor sending Data without a matching Object in the configuration. And maybe an easy way to add the Sensor to a device? Adding a Probe works like that. It would make things easier.

Frank

configuration httppush sensor

Created on Sep 25, 2016 7:22:54 PM



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Dear Frank

PRTG does not log un-assignable HTTP pushes, not even in the web server log. The script enacting the HTTP pushes should read the PRTG output to know if the result was received and assigned.

It is not directly possible to add sensors, but you can clone existing ones via the PRTG API. The API allows to access some (though, not all) sensor settings. Lets say the cloned sensor has the ID 2123. To give it a new token, an API call looks like

/api/setobjectproperty.htm?id=2123&name=httppushtoken&value=my-new-token

The full API syntax is explained in the PRTG webinterface, menu Setup | PRTG API, tab "HTTP API" and "Object manipulation".

Created on Sep 26, 2016 2:14:20 PM by Arne Seifert [Paessler Support]




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