Hi, I have a perl script that clones PRTG sensors using the web API, changing some parameters in the process. In the past this same script worked fine but after not using it for quite some time, it is now returning an unexpected error (several PRTG updates occurred in the interim). Suspecting a bug but maybe I'm missing something here. Script output is below, but basically this is the error, when I attempt to change the sensor's channel definitions:
<error>The validation of the data provided failed due to the following:<br/><ul><li>Error in channel "Broadcast Out[]" (7) : Unmatched ) found. (code: PE2011)</li></ul><br/>The object has not been changed.</error> 400 Bad Request at C:\Users\tstevens\Documents\bin\PRTG\clone-sensors.pl line 387.
In the output below you can see that there is NOT any unmatched parenthesis, neither in the plain text nor the URI encoded output (%29). Also, I see no documentation at all on this particular error (code: PE2011) so it's not very useful to print that...
Interestingly, if I go to the web interface and add an extraneous ) in the sensor channel definition and try to save, it basically prints this same error. So it seems like when calling the API, some extra ) is being incorrectly added. Am I missing something? Maybe another set of eyes will catch an error on my side but I am not seeing it... Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks, Tim
What's being shown in the script output below:
- Creates a new factory sensor based on an existing ("known good" and works fine) sensor factory sensor
- The "String" is the plain text channel definition to be pushed to the new cloned sensor
- The "URI Escaped string" is exactly that (via uri_escape($newAggregationChannel))
- the "Request sent to prtg" is the URL sent to PRTG (minus user/pass)
- "Response from PRTG" is this funky error I keep getting!
C:\Users\tstevens\Documents\bin\PRTG>clone-sensors.pl Target device: tstevens-3548p-1.cisco.com (16486)
Creating new factory sensors...Created: e1/22 Traffic (16655)
String:
#1:Total Traffic Channel(16547,8) + Channel(16547,13) + Channel(16547,9) + Channel(16547,14) + Channel(16547,10) + Channel(16547,15) #2:Unicast In Channel(16547,8) #3:Unicast Out Channel(16547,13) #4:Multicast In Channel(16547,9) #5:Multicast Out Channel(16547,14) #6:Broadcast In Channel(16547,10) #7:Broadcast Out Channel(16547,15)
URI Escaped string:
%231%3ATotal%20Traffic%0AChannel%2816547%2C8%29%20%2B%20Channel%2816547%2C13%29%20%2B%20Channel%2816547%2C9%29%20%2B%20Channel%2816547%2C14%29%20%2B%20Channel%2816547%2C10%29%20%2B%20Channel%2816547%2C15%29%0A%232%3AUnicast%20In%0AChannel%2816547%2C8%29%0A%233%3AUnicast%20Out%0AChannel%2816547%2C13%29%0A%234%3AMulticast%20In%0AChannel%2816547%2C9%29%0A%235%3AMulticast%20Out%0AChannel%2816547%2C14%29%0A%236%3ABroadcast%20In%0AChannel%2816547%2C10%29%0A%237%3ABroadcast%20Out%0D%0AChannel%2816547%2C15%29%0A%3C%2Fprtg%3E
Request sent to prtg:
https://tstevens-prtg.cisco.com/api/setobjectproperty.htm?id=16655&name=aggregationchannel&value=%231%3ATotal%20Traffic%0AChannel%2816547%2C8%29%20%2B%20Channel%2816547%2C13%29%20%2B%20Channel%2816547%2C9%29%20%2B%20Channel%2816547%2C14%29%20%2B%20Channel%2816547%2C10%29%20%2B%20Channel%2816547%2C15%29%0A%232%3AUnicast%20In%0AChannel%2816547%2C8%29%0A%233%3AUnicast%20Out%0AChannel%2816547%2C13%29%0A%234%3AMulticast%20In%0AChannel%2816547%2C9%29%0A%235%3AMulticast%20Out%0AChannel%2816547%2C14%29%0A%236%3ABroadcast%20In%0AChannel%2816547%2C10%29%0A%237%3ABroadcast%20Out%0D%0AChannel%2816547%2C15%29%0A%3C%2Fprtg%3E
Response from PRTG:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <prtg> <version>16.4.27.6720</version> <error>The validation of the data provided failed due to the following:<br/><ul><li>Error in channel "Broadcast Out[]" (7) : Unmatched ) found. (code: PE2011)</li></ul><br/>The object has not been changed.</error> 400 Bad Request at C:\Users\tstevens\Documents\bin\PRTG\clone-sensors.pl line 388. </prtg>
Last change on Apr 10, 2017 8:42:55 AM by
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