API results based on IP address

[Prem Kumar]

we are trying to retrieve the results from following Mmonit APIs.

GET POST    /status/hosts/list  Status overview
GET POST    /status/hosts/get   Details for a specific host
GET POST    /status/hosts/summary   Status summary

we are getting the results like below.

{
    "records": [
        {
            "id": 185,
            "led": 1,
          **  "hostname": "myhost",**
            "events": 17,
            "cpu": 5.6,
            "mem": 46.1,
            "status": "6 out of 10 services are available",
            "statusid": 0,
            "heartbeat": 1
        }
    ],
    "totalRecords": 1
}

we are having common hostname for some servers hence this results doesn't help us to differentiate the results based on server. we would like to update our IP address instead of hostname in the results. Let us know how to get this results via API.

Further if we need to update the additional details like Product Name, Location for the server how can we add??

[Tildeslash]

For IP-address etc, lookup the host-id via the admin/hosts method. You can use the description field for extra data. Fields for location based data etc will be added in a later version

[Prem Kumar]

Thanks for the information.

Is there any way to set hostname in "/etc/monitrc" file. so that we can update the hostname what we need.

If you don't have such option. Please let me know from where hostname will be referred at monit.

[Tildeslash]

you can set custom hostname in the /etc/monitrc via the "check system <name>" statement.