Adding Ops Notes
Last updated - 10 July, 2023
You can use LogicMonitor REST API v3 to add ops notes to your LogicMonitor account. You must authenticate yourself before making the API request.
URI: POST /setting/opsnotes
| Parameters | Type | Description |
note | String | (Mandatory) The note message. Example – “note”:”software updated from 1.0.0 to 1.2.4″ |
scopes | JSON object | The scope associated with the note. A note with no scope will show up for everything in the account. The Ops Notes scope consists of type which is a mandatory parameter. For example, device. Each scope object has a type – device, service, deviceGroup, and serviceGroup.
“scopes”:[{“type”:”device”,”deviceId”:56},{“type”:”service”,”serviceId”:87,”groupId”:74}] |
happenOnInSec | Integer | The date and time (in epoch seconds format) associated with the note. It defaults to the current time. Example – “happenOnInSec”:1488826440 |
tags | JSON object | Tags should be associated with note. Each tag has a unique Id and name. You can either include name of a new or an existing tag, or the Id of an existing tag. Example – “tags”:[{“name”:”release”},{“name”:”upgrade”}]The Ops Notes tag base consists of name which is a mandatory parameter. |
The following Python script adds an ops note to account api.logicmonitor.com, with note “deploy version 3.4.5” and tag “reporting” to the device with Id 530.
#!/bin/env python import requests import json import hashlib import base64 import time import hmac import getpass #Account Info: LogicMonitor recommends to NEVER hardcode the credentials. Instead, retrieve the values from a secure storage. #Note: The below is provided for illustration purposes only. AccessId = getpass.getpass("Enter your AccessId: ") AccessKey = getpass.getpass("Enter your AccessKey: ") Company = 'apiAccount' #Request Info httpVerb ='POST' resourcePath = '/setting/opsnotes' queryParams ='' data = '{"note":"deploy version 3.4.5","tags":[{"name":"reporting"}],"scopes":[{"type":"device","deviceId":530}]}' #Construct URL url = 'https://'+ Company +'.logicmonitor.com/santaba/rest' + resourcePath +queryParams #Get current time in milliseconds epoch = str(int(time.time() * 1000)) #Concatenate Request details requestVars = httpVerb + epoch + data + resourcePath # Construct signature digest = hmac.new( AccessKey.encode('utf-8'), msg=requestVars.encode('utf-8'), digestmod=hashlib.sha256).hexdigest() signature = base64.b64encode(digest.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8') # Construct headers auth = 'LMv1 ' + AccessId + ':' + str(signature) + ':' + epoch headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json','Authorization':auth,'X-Version':3} # 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
