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API call for tracking system status changes overnight

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Hi Paessler,

im working on an email report of changes to status overnight across a core. Nightshift are demanding pause rights and i dont trust em!

Could you perhaps let me know of any api queries you may know of to pull out the data of the last 12hrs from the system events pause/unpause log? I am making headway with scraping of the webpage and trimming but it feels a bit clunky for a software with such a good api :)

api logs status-changes

Created on Oct 16, 2018 10:01:22 AM



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Hi Sam,

Are you only interested in the actual timestamps or the time between paused and unpaused events on a per sensor basis?

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Kind regards,
Stephan Linke, Tech Support Team

Created on Oct 16, 2018 10:31:12 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Just time stamps i would think, we're not too fussed about the periods things are paused i just need to format an email to arrive each morning with stuff that was paused overnight. To a sensor level it doesnt need to be too detailed, its mostly just so if someone says "hey why is xxxx paused" i can be "oh, ryan did that last night" without having to trawl through logs, which admittedly isnt too bad a task, but my boss demands an email :P

Created on Oct 16, 2018 10:39:45 AM



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You can retrieve event logs of a specified type for a specified time period using the Get-ObjectLog cmdlet of PrtgAPI.

Get-ObjectLog -Status PausedByUser,PausedByDependency,PausedByLicense,PausedBySchedule,PausedByUser -end (get-date).addhours(-12)

I would recommend excluding PausedByDependency, and also filtering | where Message -ne "Paused by parent"

C:\> Get-ObjectLog -Status PausedByUser,PausedByLicense,PausedBySchedule,PausedByUser -end (get-date).addhours(-12) | where message -ne "Paused by parent"

DateTime               Id     Name                       Device             Status         Message
--------               --     ----                       ------             ------         -------
16/10/2018 9:50:10 PM  1      New York                                      PausedByUser   Paused by user

Is this the information you're after?

Regards,

lordmilko

Created on Oct 16, 2018 11:03:18 AM



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As always, thanks for chiming in! :)

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Kind regards,
Stephan Linke, Tech Support Team

Created on Oct 16, 2018 11:23:32 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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