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Referencing Group in API Call

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Hello,

I'm trying to use API call to enable/disable all monitors for all devices in a particular group. I see in the documentation there is a way to reference the group, but no examples. Does anyone have a sample API call to disable devices by group?

Thanks in advance

api disable enable group

Created on Mar 25, 2019 6:06:48 PM



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You could simply use the pause API call with the ID of the group to pause the entire group:

pause /api/pause.htm?id=objectid&pausemsg=yourmessage&action=0

resume /api/pause.htm?id=objectid&action=1

The first one will pause it indefinitely, the other resumes it :) Replace objectid accordingly. PRTGapi (see signature) is even easier: 

# get devies of a group and pause them indefinitely
Get-Device -Group (Get-Group -Id <groupid>) | Pause-Object -Forever
# resume the devices within that group 
Get-Device -Group (Get-Group -Id <groupid>) | Resume-Object

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Kind regards,
Stephan Linke, Tech Support Team

Created on Mar 25, 2019 9:03:07 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]

Last change on Mar 26, 2019 2:41:18 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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