Text-based response monitoring in solarwinds API poller

rajasekar

Please suggest any best method for monitor the text-based REST API response in solarwinds.

adam.beedell

Cool workaround. Could you give an example of the text? eg:

"
haystackhaystackhaystackNEEDLEhaystackhaystackhaystack
If needle in haystack then bad, else good.
"

If so, a powershell or equivalent script to make the API call and reduce it down to a statistic/message pair is fine,

If you want to use the API pollers feature, I dont think you can parse within the API Poller, but if it was like
"
{
  Status: Good
}

If Status: Good then good, if Status: Bad then bad
"
In that scenario, you could bind those messages to a number in the API pollers, then use those directly, or back them out to partially get the text back.