Seeking help for bulk creation of devices including ssl certificate sensor

[xinput]

What's going on?

Hello,

I'm currently struggling to find the right way to accomplish a bulk creation of devices and a ssl certificate sensor.

In generel I've used the script provided here #13 and modified it to my needs. It works pretty fine when it is executed without the sensor creation.

My csv file is pretty simple:

Name, Domain
domain.company.com, company.com

and my script looks like this:

if(!(Get-PrtgClient))
{
    Connect-PrtgServer prtg.company.com
}
 
# Import the CSV
$csv = Import-Csv "C:\Users\user\a-records.csv"
 
# Group each record by its Domain
$domains = $csv | group Domain
 
# Get this state's PRTG Probe
$probe = Get-Probe "prtg-probe"
 
function ProcessDomains($probe, $domains) {
 
    foreach($domain in $domains)
    {
        Write-Host "   Processing Domain $($domain.Name)"
 
        # Get this domain's PRTG Group
        $domainGroup = $probe | Get-Group $domain.Name
 
        if(!$domainGroup)
        {
            # If no such group exists, create one
            $domainGroup = $probe | Add-Group $domain.Name
        }
 
        ProcessArecords $domain $domainGroup
    }
}
 
function ProcessArecords($domain, $domainGroup) {
 
    foreach($arecord in $domain.Group)
    {
        # Get this office's server
        $device = $domaingroup | Get-Device $arecord.Name
 
        if(!$device)
        {
            Write-Host "      Adding device $($arecord.Name)"
 
            # Add the device using a Host of <hostname>.<domain>
            $device = $domainGroup | Add-Device $arecord.Name "$($arecord.Name).$env:userdnsdomain".ToLower()
 
        }
    }
}
 
ProcessDomains $probe $domains

so basically this script works well.

Let's assume I want to add the HTTP sensor I adjusted the command for the device creation to include the New-Sensor after a pipe:

 # Add the device using a Host of <hostname>.<domain> including HTTP sensor
 $device = $domainGroup | Add-Device $arecord.Name "$($arecord.Name)" | New-Sensor -http

This works also fine. Great.

Now There's the point where I'm struggeling. The sslcertificate sensor type.
I digged into the wiki but It seems I'm not able to find the right syntax to create the sslcertificate sensor on all newly created devices.

I appreciate any suggestion that helps me to solve this.

Due Dilligance

• It wasn't covered by the wiki, I swear!
• I have tried doing some basic research on this issue but haven't been able to come up with anything. Please help!

[xinput]

Nevermind.
It was my bad, messed up the variables. Issue fixed. Please consider this as resolved

[vegaobscura]

Hey @xinput , I'm actually running into the same issue and my code looks very similar. What variables did you correct/what ended up working?

Any help would be appreciated!

[xinput]

Hey @vegaobscura,

sure that's my adjusted function:

function ProcessArecords($domain, $domainGroup) {
 
    foreach($arecord in $domain.Group)
    {
        # Get this office's server
        $device = $domaingroup | Get-Device $arecord.Name
 
        if(!$device)
        {
            Write-Host "      Adding device $($arecord.Name)"
 
            # Add the device using a Host of <hostname>.<domain>
            $device = $domainGroup | Add-Device $arecord.Name "$($arecord.Name)"
       
            #Set Sensor Params for SSL Certificate Sensor
            $sslcertParams = $device | New-SensorParameters -RawType sslcertificate
 
            $device | Add-Sensor $sslcertParams
            $device | New-Sensor -http
        }
    }
}

the part that was added was this:

            #Set Sensor Params for SSL Certificate Sensor
            $sslcertParams = $device | New-SensorParameters -RawType sslcertificate
 
            $device | Add-Sensor $sslcertParams
            $device | New-Sensor -http

tested this yesterday and imported 800 devices with each a http and ssl certificate sensor. Took a while but worked flawlessly