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HTTP POST Alerts

Has any one got this working?

I can get email etc working but I really would like to get an HTTP POST working in to my systems. I have to submit a number of variables as well as the Orion data in to the url..The tutorials and documentation appear to be lacking any meaningful information..

Thanks for your help!!

Richard

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rturner101

I guess no one has been able to submit HTTP POST forms then...

Isaac

Hello Richard,

What, exactly, are you attempting to accomplish?

If you simply wish to send some data to a web processing page this should not be too difficult. You can run either external or internal VB scripts as an alert action. We use scripts to generate a file for our paging system when certain alerts are spawned.

In order to make this happen you would have to have some chops with VB and understand the macro variables for Orion.

Here is a sample of the variables:

${NodeName}
${Status}
${DateTime}

As you can see, any field from the database can be extracted as the alert is spawned by referencing it in the form ${fieldname}.

I don't have any web post actions for my alerts, but I am certain you can do this with a VB script.

Be fantastic.

schnazzer

I'm having a similar problem. Mine is regarding the POST method as well. in the body section, how do you separate the variables. Right now I have to pass 2 variables to the URL.

serverName=${SysName} <-- this one works
lastChange=${LastChange} <-- this one doesn't work

what I get when I view the resulting page is

"JOESERVER lastChange=${LastChange}" without quotes

how do I separate the variables?

chris.conway

schnazzer,

Try passing the variables with an & in the link

ie - somepage.asp?serverName=${SysName}&lastChange=${LastChange}

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SolarWinds Premier Partner
www.asl-solarwinds.co.uk

anushkashanitha

Richard

Do you have any codes for this and I am a beginner to this and i have some doubts. I think by observing a code i can clarify those

RichardLetts

the following works:

[aside from caption the post is uploading a whole bunch of custom properties for a Node Down alert to a web service.

The things to note are the ${CR} for a new line and I think this is posted as text/plain which might not be what your web server is expecting to get in a post

immpagaduan

Hi RichardLetts!

1. May I know what is the URL you used in order for this to work?

2. What specific script we need to enter in the BODY? -- I mean, what's with "KEY: Node Down ..." ?

We are trying to integrate Solarwinds to Request tracker (ticketing tool) via HTTP POST and can't seem to make it work...

Br,

Ian

RichardLetts

I'm sorry, but that is a post from more than a year ago; and event then was a remnant from when we were using RT. I can't figure out the answer right now.

1. Have you tried the examples from REST - Request Tracker Wiki

2. what was the output from using CURL

3. what are in the logs on your RT instance when you post to it from curl (that succeeds)?

4. what are in the logs on your RT instance when you post to it from Solarwinds (that fails)?

Thanks

immpagaduan

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your prompt response. Yeah i was able to find this post recently since we were having trouble with the HTTP POST method.

We have tried doing what was stated in REST - Request Tracker Wiki. During our test, we didn't use any variables yet to simplify the process first and to verify that a ticket will be created at first. Unfortunately, no ticket was created, no logs created from solarwinds (that fails) and Request tracker (that it succeed) as well.

Another question is, what is the link that we need to use in the HTTP POST?

Br,

Ian