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API - Forcing a manual Poll

rhether

Does the API support a method to force a manual poll on a node?

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tdanner

The url should be https://SERVERNAME:17778/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/Invoke/Orion.Nodes/PollNow

And the POST body should be:

['N:100']

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tdanner

Yes. You can invoke the verb "Orion.Nodes.PollNow" to do this. It expects one argument, a NetObjectID. For a node, that looks like "N:123" where 123 is the NodeID value.

rhether

I am trying to use it in a POST e.g. (NodeID: 100)

https://SERVERNAME:17778/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/Invoke/Orion.Nodes/Poll.Now/N100

I am trying it using POSTMAN with Basic Auth

Receiving a 500 Internal Server Error.

"Expecting state 'Element'.. Encountered 'Text' with name '', namespace ''. "

I think I have not formatted the URL correctly.

tdanner

The url should be https://SERVERNAME:17778/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/Invoke/Orion.Nodes/PollNow

And the POST body should be:

['N:100']

Martin_Crothers

Hi @tdanner,
I'm getting an error stating:

"Encountered unexpected character '''."

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong

Here's how I tried it via Postman:

Here's trying it in PowerShell ISE:

Do you know what I'm doing incorrectly?