SCOM – Uptime Robot Management Pack

Hi,

As I posted earlier SquaredUp can be integrated with all kinds of APIs, however if you know about management pack authoring an API can also be used as datasource in a management pack. In this post I’ll show some information about an Uptime Robot Management pack I created to create classes and instances of those classes in SCOM by using the API of Uptime Robot. To accomplish this I worked together with fellow SCOM consultant Jasper Vandamme

First things first: create the API using the Uptime Robot website. (detailed steps: https://www.bpitconsulting.be/2019/11/12/squared-up-uptimerobot-api/ )

I created the management pack using Visual Studio Authoring Extensions.

Classes (with properties):

• Uptime Robot WatcherNode
  • URL
  • APIKey
• Uptime Robot Website
  • FriendlyName
  • ID
  • URL
  • Type
  • Interval

Uptime Robot WatcherNode Discovery:

All webrequests to the API are targeted on the watchernode. For this Discovery a registry discovery is used. It looks for a key HKLM\SOFTWARE\SCOM\Uptimerobot with values APIKey and URL. Both parameters are used afterwards in the scripts.

Uptime Robot Website Discovery:

After the WatcherNode is discovered the Website discovery kicks off, the core of the script is these lines of code:

$body = “api_key=$ApiKey&format=json”

Invoke-webrequest -method post -uri “$scripturl/v2/getMonitors” -body $body -UseBasicParsing

Monitors:

• Website availability ( up or down)
• API availability (up or down)

Rules:

• API responsetime (ms)
• Website responsetime (ms)
• Website uptime last 7 days (%)
• Website uptime last 30 days (%)
• Website uptime last 90 days (%)

A dashboard can be created in SquaredUp to show the performance data

Drop me a comment below if you have any suggestions, feedback,..

Best regards,

Bert