Add a Device Group
You can use LogicMonitor’s REST API to programmatically add LogicMonitor device groups.
As with all of our API calls, authentication is required.
HTTP Method: POST
URI: /device/groups
You can POST the following properties for each device group:
Property |
Description |
Required? |
Type |
Example |
parentId | The id of the parent group for this device group (the root device group has an Id of 1) | No. Defaults to 1 (root group) | Integer | “parentId”:1 |
name | The name of the device group | Yes | String | “name”:”MyDeviceGroup” |
description | The description of the device group | No | String | “description”:”My device group description” |
disableAlerting | Indicates whether alerting is disabled (true) or enabled (false) for this device group | No. Defaults to false | Boolean | “disableAlerting”:false |
appliesTo | The Applies to custom query for this group. Setting this field will make this a dynamic group. | No. Defaults to a non-dynamic group | String | “appliesTo”:”system.displayname =~ \”Prod\”” |
customProperties | The properties associated with this device group | No | JSON object | “customProperties”:[{“name”:”location”,”value”:”12 E. Carrillo, Santa Barbara, CA”}] |
Example
The following Python script adds a device group directly under the root group, and adds a property ‘customer’ for this group set to the value ‘A’:
#!/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 ='POST'
resourcePath = '/device/groups'
data = '{"name":"customerA","customProperties":[{"name":"customer","value":"A"}]}'
#Construct URL
url = 'https://'+ Company +'.logicmonitor.com/santaba/rest' + resourcePath
#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.post(url, data=data, headers=headers)
#Print status and body of response
print('Response Status:',response.status_code)
print('Response Body:',response.content)
Python 3