Bulk rename of http sensor urls

[synsof]

What's going on?

Our organization got sold to a new company and as part of this we need to rename all of our http sensors in prtg. Playing with some powershell variables, I was able to do essentially this with the name property, with no problem.

$params` = get-sensor -id 2877
$params.Name
HTTP ccccc.whatever.com
$rename = $params.Name
$rename
HTTP ccccc.whatever.com
$rename = $rename -replace 'ccccc', `'yyyyy'`
$rename
HTTP yyyyy.whatever.com
$params.Name = $rename
$params.Name
HTTP yyyyy.whatever.com
get-sensor -id 2877 | Set-ObjectProperty Name ``$params.Name

However, when trying to do the exact same thing with the httpurl property, it doesn't work. So, when I do

$params = get-sensor -id 2877
$params.httpurl

Nothing returns, and when I do

$rename = $rename -replace 'ccccc'.'yyyyy'
$rename

All i get is 'https://'

Then finally, when I $params.httpurl = $rename

I get this error:

The property 'httpurl' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists and can be set.
At line:1 char:1
+ $params.httpurl = $rename
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PropertyNotFound

Please help, I want to be able to run this in bulk instead of going into each http sensor and replacing the characters manually.

Thanks

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• [x ] I have tried doing some basic research on this issue but haven't been able to come up with anything. Please help!

[lordmilko]

Hi @synsof,

Sensor objects do not have a httpurl property, and their properties also do not exactly represent "parameters" that you'd then specify to the Set-ObjectProperty cmdlet.

Rather, the Overview section on the wiki lists all of the known properties you can modify with Set-ObjectProperty. In this case, the name of the property we want to modify is the Url.

As such, in order to modify both the Name and Url of a sensor in one go we can do the following

foreach($sensor in $sensors)
{
    $properties = $sensor | Get-ObjectProperty
    $newName = $proeprties.Name -replace 'ccccc', 'yyyyy'
    $newUrl = $properties.Url -replace 'ccccc', 'yyyyy'

    Write-Host "Changing sensor $($sensor.Name) (ID: $($sensor.Id)) Name/Url from $($properties.Name)/$($properties.Url) to $newName/$newUrl"
    $sensor | Set-ObjectProperty -Name $newName -Url $newUrl
}

Regards, lordmilko