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Reports - sensor ID and sensor Name

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I'm using reports to process some info with an external app, so i'm making reports using sensor tags to make more easy and automatic (when addsome type of sensor, its automatically add to the report too), this report attach the files in csv format, but in the name of files or inside of it is not the sensor name but the report use his ID.

The ID is not representative and i dont want to search manually name and ID, its inefficient and requieres a human intervention for update when add a new sensor.

Its possible to extract a table with ID and Name of each sensor to make the correlation, maybe using other report or other way?

reports sensor-id sensor-name

Created on Sep 16, 2022 6:36:14 PM



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Hi there,

I'm afraid this is not possible since the csv file is generated from the monitoring database. This means values are only stored in dependency of the IDs and not the name, since the name of a sensor can change, the ID can't. The only workaround would be to create a script which queries the API to map the sensor name to the ID.

Kind regards

Felix Wiesneth - Team Tech Support.

Created on Sep 19, 2022 10:41:11 AM by Felix Wiesneth [Paessler Support]



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Thanks Felix, is there some tutorial or cookbook to make that or something similar using the API?

Created on Sep 19, 2022 11:51:17 AM



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Hi there,

We do not have a cookbook for this. However you can take a look in our manual about the API.

Kind regards

Felix Wiesneth - Team Tech Support

Created on Sep 19, 2022 2:26:09 PM by Felix Wiesneth [Paessler Support]




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