topic Re: No objectif for host in Dynatrace API

No objectif for host

MDA — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:20:38 GMT

Hello does anyone know why some host have no objectid. I try to take obectid for automatic disable monitoring and somme host haven't objectid !

Re: No objectif fot host

victor_balbuena — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:10:03 GMT

Can you elaborate more on your question? Hosts have an Entity ID which looks like HOST-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX where the Xs represent an hexadecimal number. Object IDs are used in the Settings API and refer to configuration elements, like management zones, tags, alerting profiles, etc.

Basically, a host is an entity and has an entity ID and a configuration element is some kind of setting of Dynatrace and has an object ID.

Re: No objectif for host

dannemca — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:29:27 GMT

All hosts monitored with OneAgent should be available to be manged thru the schema builtin:host.monitoring.

Can you provide more details of this host you are not seeing its objectid?

Re: No objectif fot host

MDA — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:48:00 GMT

Hello Victor,

yes, in fact if i take setting obect API(GET/settings/objects Lists persisted settings objects)

with Hostid on scope , you have a result

but sometime

So on the past whe have an API for disabled monitoring, now it seems we have to use seting object API, but how can we put (PUT/settings/objects/{objectId} Updates an existing settings object)

new value, the required element is objectid !

Regards

Re: No objectif for host

MDA — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:23:34 GMT

Hi,dannemca

there is a lot off hosts, it's not one host, and on different cluster. In my example, i 've 5 objectid / 24 hosts.

i've to check the diff, it seems thats the 5 host (good objectid) have no host group set.

Regards

Re: No objectif for host

MDA — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:56:41 GMT

Hello,

i confirm the only difference is : the five host entity with ojectid haven't host group setting.

Regards

Re: No objectif fot host

victor_balbuena — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:07:58 GMT

So if I get this correctly, the first GET gives you an object ID which refers to the settings object for "automatic disable monitoring". However, if this configuration has not been modified previously, you don't get an object ID for it, it's just empty as your second example. In that case, consider that the PUT request is for modifying an existing configuration, what you need to use here is the POST request to create a new configuration, using the actual HOST ID in the scope.

So if the object ID is there, you can use PUT. If the object ID is not there for one host, you can use POST to create it an assign an object ID to that host's settings.

Re: No objectif fot host

MDA — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:11:36 GMT

Thank you Victor,

I focused on this obectid and the solution was in front of me with the POST API.

Have a good day