topic Re: How to Scope Maintenance window by displayName in API in Open Q&A

How to Scope Maintenance window by displayName in API

grogers — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:58:42 GMT

I'm looking to give my SysAdmins a 1 line curl script to create one-time maintenance windows for reboots. Is there a way I can set scope based on displayName rather than entityID or tags? I'm doubtful that my sysadmins will know the entityID of a host, but they will know hostname, which corresponds to displayName in our environment.

This doesn't work, but illustrates what I'm trying to accomplish:

    {
        "id":"TestAPIPlannedMW",
        "type":"Planned",
        "description":"Test MW created from API",
        "suppressAlerts":true,
        "suppressProblems":false,
        "scope":{
            "matches": {
                "type": "HOST",
                "displayName": "my-server.example.com"
            }
        },
        "schedule":{
            "type":"Once",
            "timezoneId":"America/Chicago",
            "maintenanceStart":"2018-08-01 20:00",
            "maintenanceEnd":"2018-08-01 20:05"
        }
    }

Re: How to Scope Maintenance window by displayName in API

wolfgang_beer — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 05:43:43 GMT

Display name filter is not possible as of today, but how about to use a tag on the host to achieve this scope?

Re: How to Scope Maintenance window by displayName in API

grogers — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:03:57 GMT

Okay. I'll probably need to start tagging all me hosts with their hostname to get this working. Thanks.

Re: How to Scope Maintenance window by displayName in API

grogers — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:49:49 GMT

Short follow-up, I created an Automatic Tag to add a Host:displayName tag to hosts, and can now easily create Maintenance windows for my hosts.