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External API

PA Server Monitor has a simple API for automating some basic operations.

Security

To protect the system from un-authorized requests, there are two security precautions that are required:

Requests are made via HTTPS. The format of the requests is:

HTTPS://{server}:{port}?API={command}&KEY={API Key}

Additional optional parameters can be appended to the URL using the pattern:

&{param_name}={value}

Return Values

All API commands return data as simple text. Successful commands return as XML, or in the following format:

:START:
{returned data
can be multiple lines}
:END:

All errors are returned as:

:ERROR:{error text}

API Commands

Below are the supported commands. The command name should be inserted where {command} is shown in the example above.

GET_SERVER_LIST

Returns a list of servers and the group that the server is in. The XML version also shows the computer's internal ID.

Optional Parameters
XML = {0|1} - defaults to 0

Example

https://server:81?API=GET_SERVER_LIST&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj

Output (server|group^group)

:START:
DNVISTA|Servers/Devices
192.168.2.5|Servers/Devices
POWERADMIN.COM|Servers/Devices^Boston
OPSMON02|Servers/Devices^Servers^Office
ARCHIVE|Servers/Devices
:END:

XML Example

https://server:81?API=GET_SERVER_LIST&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj&XML=1

XML Output

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<servers>
  <server name="DNVISTA" group="Servers/Devices^Boston^Servers" id="1" />
  <server name="192.168.2.5" group="Servers/Devices^Kansas City" id="2" />
  <server name="POWERADMIN.COM" group="Servers/Devices^External" id="4" />
  <server name="OPSMON02" group="Servers/Devices^Boston^Servers" id="5" />
  <server name="ARCHIVE" group="Servers/Devices^Boston^Servers" id="8" />
</servers>

GET_MONITOR_INFO

Returns information about all monitors owned by a particular computer.

Required Parameters
CID - Computer ID for the computer to target for the operation. Computer IDs can be obtained via the GET_SERVER_LIST (XML output) above.

Optional Parameters
FORMAT_DATE - 0 to always output as dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss (24 hour hh), or 1 to use the same format that the existing reports use (which can be customized). Defaults to 0.

Example

https://server:81?API=GET_MONITOR_INFO&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj&CID=371
&FORMAT_DATE=1

Output (XML)

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<monitors>
  <monitor id="13" status="OK" depends_on="" title="Check Free Disk Space" lastRun="16-10-2010 5:54:10" nextRun="16-10-2010 11:54:10" errText="" errorActionIDs="1,3,8" fixedActionIDs="" />
  <monitor id="74" status="Alert" depends_on="132,5" title="Ping OPSMON02" lastRun="16-10-2010 6:25:12" nextRun="16-10-2010 6:26:12" errText="OPSMON02 is not responding to ping requests [in error for 2m 3s]" errorActionIDs="7,3" fixedActionIDs="3" />
</monitors>

GET_ACTION_INFO

Returns a list describing all the actions in the system (these IDs are used in the errorActionIDs and fixedActionIDs attributes returned from GET_MONITOR_INFO

Example

https://server:81?API=GET_ACTION_INFO&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj

Output (XML)

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<actions>
  <action id="1" type="Message Box" typeID="3" title="Message Box" />
  <action id="2" type="Write to a Text Log File" typeID="6" title="Write to ServerEvents.txt log file" />
  <action id="6" type="Start, Stop or Restart a Service" typeID="5" title="Restart stopped service on monitored computer" />
</actions>

START_MAINTENANCE

Put the server into immediate maintenance mode.

Required Parameters
CID - Computer ID for the computer to target for the operation. Computer IDs can be obtained via the GET_SERVER_LIST (XML output) above.
{deprecated} SERVER - name of the server that should be put into maintenance mode

MINUTES - time in minutes that the server should remain in maintenance mode before it automatically reverts to normal monitoring

Example

https://server:81?API=START_MAINTENANCE&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj &CID=37&MINUTES=15

Output

:OK:

END_MAINTENANCE

Put the server back into normal monitoring mode.

Required Parameters
CID - Computer ID for the computer to target for the operation. Computer IDs can be obtained via the GET_SERVER_LIST (XML output) above.
{deprecated} SERVER - name of the server that should be put into normal monitoring mode

Example

https://server:81?API=END_MAINTENANCE&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj&CID=37

Output

:OK:

RUN_NOW

Request the specified monitor be run immediately

Required Parameters
MID - Monitor ID for the monitor to run immediately. Monitor IDs can be obtained from GET_MONITOR_INFO above.

Example

https://server:81?API=RUN_NOW&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj&MID=4721

Output

:OK:

ADD_SERVER

Add and optionally configure the named server

Required Parameters
SERVER - name of the server that should be added. If the server already exists, it will be operated on (WIN, WMI and GROUP will not have an effect in that case).

Optional Parameters
WIN={0|1} - defaults to 0. Set to 1 if this is a Windows server.

WMI={0|1} - defaults to 0. Set to 1 if WMI polling should happen to collect System Details information for the server status report

CONFIG_PATH - defaults to none. Full path to a .cxml config file that specifies a configuration that should be applied to the new server. .cxml files are created by exporting a computer's configuration. The file must be on the same computer as PA Server Monitor is running on.

GROUP - defaults to none (which implies the top level group). The full path to the group that the server should be placed in, for example: Servers/Devices^Seattle^Exchange Servers (where the ^ delimits group names).

Example

https://server:81?API=ADD_SERVER&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj&SERVER=MAILSRV2&WIN=1 &WMI=1&CONFIG_PATH=C:\Configs\Mail+Config.cxml

Output

:OK:

DELETE_SERVER

Delete the named server, along with all of its monitors

Required Parameters
CID - Computer ID for the computer to target for the operation. Computer IDs can be obtained via the GET_SERVER_LIST (XML output) above.
{deprecated} SERVER - name of the server that should be deleted

Example

https://server:81?API=DELETE_SERVER&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj&CID=125

Output

:OK:

ADD_GROUP

Add the given group if it doesn't already exist

Required Parameters
NAME - Full of the group name. For example, a group named "Exchange Servers" under the top "Servers\Devices" would set NAME to Servers\Devices^Exchange%20Servers (delimit groups with ^, URL encode, so a space becomes %20)

Example

https://server:81?API=ADD_GROUP&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj&NAME=Servers\Devices^New%20York^Web

Output

:OK:

DELETE_GROUP

Delete the named group. If it contains child groups or servers, they will become orphaned and moved to the top Servers\Devices group the next time the monitoring service is restarted.

Required Parameters
NAME - Full of the group name. For example, a group named "Exchange Servers" under the top "Servers\Devices" would set NAME to Servers\Devices^Exchange%20Servers (delimit groups with ^, URL encode, so a space becomes %20)

Example

https://server:81?API=DELETE_GROUP&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj&NAME=Servers\Devices^New%20York^Web

Output

:OK:

GOTO_SERVER_REPORT

Pass a server name and get forwarded to that server's status report

Required Parameters
CID - Computer ID for the computer to target for the operation. Computer IDs can be obtained via the GET_SERVER_LIST (XML output) above.
{deprecated} SERVER - name of the server

Example

https://server:81?API=GOTO_SERVER_REPORT&KEY=msa8gbk4j78dbglaj&CID=362

Output
Browser gets redirected to the given server's status report page

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