Hi everybody,

i'm taking a first look on PRTG and am quite impressed so far. Currently I'm trying to use the API. As I am a web developer I am familiar with HTTP requests and GET parameters. I already tried to rename an object via the API and it works well. Now I was wondering if it's possible to plan a maintenance window respectivele a planned downtime by using the API, e.g.

https://myIP/api/setobjectproperty.htm?id=myID&name=maintenance&sdate=xxxx&edate=xxxx or https://myIP/api/setobjectproperty.htm?id=myID&name=newdowntime&sdate=xxxx&edate=xxxx

In addition I am missing an overview where I could see all property values I could use (e.g. Host, Name, etc.). If it is already existing I wasn't able to find it :-(

Can somebody help me with this issue?

Kind regards, Stefanie

Article Comments

With the API you cannot schedule maintenance directly for the device or the sensor but you can pause sensors for a duration or indefinitely and then resume them with the API as well. See the documentation in your web interface for the syntax.


Sep, 2013 - Permalink

Hi Greg,

thanks for your reply. I'll give it a try but would be a nice feature for the future :-)

Kind regards, Stefi


Sep, 2013 - Permalink

After discussing the request with the API developer, it seems that this is possible but somewhat difficult as you need three calls to set that data.

http://server/api/setobjectproperty.htm?id=IDOFSENSOR&name=maintenable&value= 0 or 1

http://server/api/setobjectproperty.htm?id=IDOFSENSOR&name=maintend&value=(Date in the format  YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS)

http://server/api/setobjectproperty.htm?id=IDOFSENSOR&name=maintstart&value=(Date in the format  YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS)

Sep, 2013 - Permalink