Update Website Groups

With LogicMonitor’s REST API you can programmatically update your LogicMonitor website groups.

There are two ways to update a website group:

• PUT: A PUT request enables you to replace an entire website group definition (and update fields in the process).  You should use PUT to update a website group if you want to provide an updated JSON definition for the website group.  Note that consistent with REST standards, any properties not specified in a PUT request will revert back to their default values.
• PATCH: A PATCH request enables you to replace only certain fields for a website group.  You should use PATCH if you don’t have the JSON definition for the website group and you only want to update a few fields.

PUT

Note that you cannot update the root group.

HTTP Method:PUT

URI: /service/groups/{id}

Request Parameters:

Note: Consistent with REST standards, any properties not specified in a PUT request will revert back to their default values.

Example PUT:

The following request updates the website group with id 9.

curl --user 'apiUser:example' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"newServiceGroup","description":"testSites","disableAlerting":false,"testLocation":"{smgIds:[1,2,3,4,5]}"}' -X PUT "https://api.logicmonitor.com/santaba/rest/service/groups/9"</pre>
<p><strong>Response: </strong></p>
<pre class="programlisting">{
  "status" : 200,
  "errmsg" : "OK",
  "data" : {
    "id" : 16,
    "name" : "newServiceGroup",
    "description" : "testSites",
    "disableAlerting" : false,
    "stopMonitoring" : false,
    "parentId" : 1,
    "alertStatus" : "none",
    "sdtStatus" : "none-none-none",
    "alertDisableStatus" : "none-none-none",
    "hasServicesDisabled" : false,
    "numOfServices" : 0,
    "userPermission" : "write",
    "serviceProperties" : [ ],
    "numOfDirectServices" : 0,
    "testLocation" : "{smgIds:[1,2,3,4,5]}",
    "fullPath" : "newServiceGroup",
    "subGroups" : [ ]
  }

PATCH

HTTP Method: PATCH

URI: /service/groups/{id}

Request Parameters:

With every PATCH request you must include a query parameter patchFields that indicates which fields should be updated, where multiple fields should be comma separated.  If a field is identified in the patchFields parameter and included in the payload of the request, its value will be updated.  All other field values will remain the same.  E.g. to update a service group’s name, the URI + query parameter would be /santaba/rest/service/groups/{id}?patchFields=name.  The name field would also need to be included in the request payload.  

Note that to add or update just one or a few website group properties in the serviceProperties object, but not all of them, you’ll need to additionally use the opType query parameter. The opType query parameter can be set to add or replace. opType=add indicates that the properties included in the payload will be added, but all existing properties will remain the same. opType=replace indicates that the properties included in the request payload will be added if they don’t already exist, or updated if they do already exist, but all other existing properties will remain the same.

Example PATCH

The following Python script adds a property to website group 21, without changing any other values:

#!/bin/env python

import requests
import json
import hashlib
import base64
import time
import hmac

#Account Info
AccessId ='48v2wRzfK94y53sq5EuF'
AccessKey ='H_D9i(f5~B^U36^K6i42=^nS~e75gy382Bf6{)P+'
Company = 'api'

#Request Info
httpVerb ='PATCH'
resourcePath = '/service/groups/21'
queryParams ='?patchFields=serviceProperties&opType=add'
data = '{"serviceProperties":[{"name":"project","value":"demo"}]}'

#Construct URL 
url = 'https://'+ Company +'.logicmonitor.com/santaba/rest' + resourcePath + queryParams

#Get current time in milliseconds
epoch = str(int(time.time() * 1000))

#Concatenate Request details
requestVars = httpVerb + epoch + data + resourcePath

#Construct signature
hmac1 = hmac.new(AccessKey.encode(),msg=requestVars.encode(),digestmod=hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
signature = base64.b64encode(hmac1.encode())

#Construct headers
auth = 'LMv1 ' + AccessId + ':' + signature.decode() + ':' + epoch
headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':auth}

#Make request
response = requests.patch(url, data=data, headers=headers)

#Print status and body of response
print('Response Status:',response.status_code)
print('Response Body:',response.content)