how to setup in solarwinds to execute a powershell script that checks via an API if a service is running.

Hi Folks ,

I have a powershell script that tests an API by using a json packet. This script works 100% from my Desktop.

This script checks via the api and the JSON that a webservice is working , with the reposnse it gives back ie 0= successful and any other response is its down basically.

I am newish to Solarwinds so forgive me if use wrong words to describe solarwinds functions.

How do i

setup and run this powershell script so I can check the service is running, if the response is not 0 , it will send an alert on to our dashboard (by default) and email.

I have followed trying a application template but I am missing some stuff somwehere in solarwinds and my knowledge.

This is the powershell I call , it reads from a json file and the result comes back

The scripting stuff works great , but how do I get this to work in Solarwinds

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Scripts\Send-FEM-Alert.ps1" "${N=SwisEntity;M=Node.Caption}" "${N=Alerting;M=AlertName}" "${N=Alerting;M=Severity}"

Access token retrieved successfully.
JSON payload read from file: C:\Scripts\test2.json
API call successful.

Find more posts tagged with

Accepted answers

All comments

chad.every

@meiers , it might be easier to setup an API Poller within the platform to monitor your API endpoint. https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/sam/content/sam-api-poller-manage.htm. I recommend you check that out and see if that fulfills your requirements.

If that doesn't work and you need the PoweShell script to check status of your API Endpoint, then there are some output requirements outlined here: SAM Script Component Monitors - Everything you need to know

meiers

Thanks for the reply Chad . The API wont work as it needs to "read" not post or get . The script is working in the template i created and when I run the "Test script" it displays the correct result . I think my my issue is attaching the template to a "device". I need to attach it to a url which is external to the company so I created a node to the url but I dont think this is correct am I doing this wrong. ???

pratikjajal

Hi @meiers ,

Since you already have a PowerShell script, you can easily manage its output using a SAM (Server & Application Monitor) template. Please follow the steps below:

Go to Settings → All Settings → SAM Settings → Manage Templates → Create a New Template.
Click Add Component Monitor and select Windows PowerShell Monitor.
Expand the component, then paste your PowerShell script under the Script Body section.
Choose “Inherit credentials from the node” if the server is already being monitored in SolarWinds.
Under Script Output, define thresholds for Warning and Critical states — for example, you can trigger an alert if the output is not equal to 1.
Once the template is created, configure the alert actions to receive notifications when conditions are violated.

If you’re still facing any issues, ’d be happy to assist you further.

Best regards,
Pratik Jajal

mesverrum

I usually have some "placeholder" nodes that exist just as a place to attach scripts. If the script doesn't actually use the hostname or anything from the node its running from you can use local host execution option and just assign it to any node and really is just running on my Orion poller.

meiers

Thanks for the suggestions and Help. I took the suggestion of a Node to just attach things to and attached the PS scripts and used the API. This worked great as all the sight info and api and java were in the scripts and is working great and outputs a 0 for success and any other number as failure . Thanks for repsonses