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You can use LogicMonitor’s REST API to programmatically add Escalation Chains to your account.
As with all of our API calls, authentication is required.
POST
/setting/alert/chains
You can POST the following properties for all new escalation chains:
The following Python script adds an Escalation Chain ‘DBTeam’ to the account api.logicmonitor.com, where the escalation chain has a single stage for the db team recipient group:
#!/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 = '/setting/alert/chains' data='{"name":"DBTeam","destinations":[{"type":"single","stages":[[{"type":"group","addr":"dbTeam"}]]}]}' #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)