Update Device Monitoring
Applies To
API Parameters for Enterprise Deployments
API Parameters for Multitenant Deployments
Sample XML Output
Sample Code
Sample XML Input File
Sample Python Script
Applies To
Enterprise and multitenant deployments.
API Parameters for Enterprise Deployments
| Methodology | REST API based: make an HTTP(S) request with an input XML (optional). |
| Input URL | https:// |
| Input
Credentials |
Username and password of any AccelOps account |
| Input
Parameters |
Username and password of Super account or Organization specific account, Organization name, input XML containing the updates to device monitoring configuration. |
| Output | HTTP Status Code |
API Parameters for Multitenant Deployments
| Methodology | REST API based: make an HTTP(S) request with an input XML (optional). |
| Input URL | https:// |
| Input
Credentials |
Username and password of Super account or Organization specific account, Organization name, input XML containing the updates to device monitoring configuration. |
| Output | HTTP Status Code |
Sample XML Output
Sample Code
Sample XML Input File
Sample Python Script
This sample takes the credentials, and optionally an organization name, as arguments and writes out the parsed XML output file in a comma separated value (CSV) format on the screen. The output can be redirected to a file if needed.
| UpdateMonitor.py Script | Usage |
| import sys, base64, urllib, urllib2 def restPost(appServer, user, password, file):
f = open(file, ‘r’) content = f.read() f.close() url = “https://” + appServer + “/phoenix/rest/deviceMon/updateMonitor” auth = “Basic %s” % base64.encodestring(user + “:” + password) request = urllib2.Request(url, content) request.add_header(‘Authorization’, auth) request.add_header(‘Content-Type’, ‘text/xml’) # ‘application/xml’ request.add_header(‘Content-Length’, len(content)+2) request.add_header(‘User-Agent’, ‘Python-urllib2/2.7’) request.get_method = lambda: ‘PUT’ try: handle = urllib2.urlopen(request) except urllib2.HTTPError, error: if (error.code != 204): print error if __name__==’__main__’: if len(sys.argv) != 5: print “Usage: UpdateMonitor.py appServer user password deviceDefFile” print “Example: python UpdateMonitor.py 192.168.20.116 super/admin adm1n deviceMonitorDef.xml” sys.exit() restPost(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4]) |
python UpdateMonitor.py <AccelOps_IP> <user> <password> <device monitor xml file name> Sample Query
python UpdateMonitor.py 172.16.20.210 “super/admin” “admin*1” MonitorDevice.xml Super_user needs to be explicitly stated in organization/user format, for example “super/admi n” or “super/admin” instead of just “admin” |