Powershell Monitor / Basic Authentications / Credentials

Hello Thwack-Folks!

Brief situation:

I do have a powershell monitor, which opens a website and parses the content. For access I do have to pass a basic http authentication.

Script is ready, tested and works, now I am curious about the credentials. When setting up an orion powershell monitor you are able to select credentials for your access.

So what I am looking for is, instead of using this line and storing username and password in plain inside the script

$webclient.credentials = new-object system.net.networkcredential("yourusername", "yourpassword")

I would like to use the credentials stored in orion.

So my question is, is it possible and if yes, how to I transfer the credentials from orion to the script monitor?

Thank you in advance!

-FRA

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Accepted answers

aLTeReGo

Instead of a script have you considered using the HTTP User Experience Monitor instead?

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aLTeReGo

Have you looked through the list of Script Macros? I believe you're looking for the ${USER} and ${PASSWORD} variables.

lukas.belza

Hello,

For PowerShell Script Monitor you can use following approach to get user name and password. For some security reasons the ${USER} and ${PASSWORD} variables are not available for PowerShell Script Monitor.

Function SecureStringToString($value)
{
    [System.IntPtr] $bstr = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($value);
    try
    {
        [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringBSTR($bstr);
    }
    finally
    {
        [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::FreeBSTR($bstr);
    }
}

$c = Get-Credential -credential ${CREDENTIAL}
[string] $username = $c.Username
[string] $password = SecureStringToString $c.Password

Thank you,

Lukas Belza (SolarWinds development)

FormerMember

Good Morning Lukas!

Thank you for your hint.

The variable ${CREDENTIALS} was not listet under ScriptMacros.

So I used your script part you posted and it works fine.

Thanks again

-FRA

rafish

Hi,

i am trying to test basic http authentication but i don't familiar with PowerShell,

can you publish your template so i can use it ?

Regards

Rafi

FormerMember

Good afternoon Rafish!

Sure. This script uses the credentials provided inside the orion credential library

and outputs the figure of a website

Function SecureStringToString($value)

{

[System.IntPtr] $bstr = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($value);

try

{

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringBSTR($bstr);

}

finally

{

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::FreeBSTR($bstr);

}

$c = Get-Credential -credential ${CREDENTIAL}

[string] $username = $c.Username

[string] $password = SecureStringToString $c.Password

After this, you are able to use the variables freely

For example

$webclient = new-object system.net.webclient

$webclient.credentials = new-object system.net.networkcredential($username, $password)