update of public stations for monitors

Products

• CA App Synthetic Monitor

Issue/Introduction

You have serval 100s monitors and inquiring if it is possible to move off all monitors off a public station from backend side instead of going to the ASM UI for each monitor. Or any other suggestions to do this process without using UI.

Resolution

Currently, You have following options:

1- You can change it via API. Find details in online document: Use the API

The API call PUT /monitors/{id} works as PATCH as well. 
I.e: You can only change the locations and do not need to provide full monitor definition.

Payload example:

{
  "checkpoint": {
    "usePublic": false,
    "groupIds": [
      212,
      242,
      1829
    ],
    "algorithm": "seq",
    "defaultGroupId": null
  }
}

Make sure to adjust the algorithm accordingly. 

You need to change the group IDs, which are the IDs of the locations. You can get the location IDs from here.

You can get the monitor IDs from here:

 

2- You can also update the locations via bulk action in the ASM UI.

In first step you select all monitors where you need to update monitoring station, then select the option of monitoring station.