nodepingpy

A new Python 3 library for managing NodePing checks, schedules, contacts, etc.

General Usage

To use the NodePing API with Python3, you are required to use your provided API token. You can find your API key on your NodePing account under Account Settings → API.

You can also optionally provide a Sub Account ID which can be found under Account Settings → SubAccounts and you will see the ID by its name.

You can set these variables, for example, like so:

token = "my-api-token"
customerid = "your-subaccount-id"

An example use of specifically managing an account/subaccount via the ID might look like this:

>>> from nodepingpy import accounts
>>> token = "api-token-here"
>>> customerid = "your-subaccount-id"
>>> accounts.info(token, customerid)

For additional information visit the API documentation:

https://nodeping.com/docs-api-overview.html

Installation

To install this package, run:

pip install nodepingpy

Accounts Module

This module returns account information, including getting and updating accounts/subaccounts, creating subaccounts, and deleting subaccounts.

Can be imported with

from nodepingpy import accounts

Check API Token Validity

Returns True if API token is valid or False if not.

>>> from nodepingpy import accounts
>>> token = "api-token-here"
>>> accounts.is_valid(token)
True

Get Account Info

Use accounts.info to get details about the parent account

>>> accounts.info(token)
{
    "201205050153W2Q4C": {
        "parent": 5,
        "name": "Peter Provider",
        "status": "Active",
        "count": 120
    },
    "201204251942S197J": {
        "name": "Courageous Charlie",
        "status": "Active",
        "count": 31
    }
}

Or when specifying an account/subaccount

>>> accounts.info(token, customerid)
{
    "_id": "201205102227VZ6XU",
    "type": "customer",
    "customer_name": "My Company Name",
    "creation_date": 1336626000000,
    "status": "Active",
    "timezone": "-7.0",
    "nextBillingDate": "2012-05-15",
    "defaultlocations": [ "nam" ]
}

Creating Accounts

This will only create subaccounts, not a new account. A dataclass is used for simple templating of arguments to pass to the API.

token = "my-token"
args = accounts.Account(name="My Company Name", contactname="Courageous Charlie", email="[email protected]", timezone="-5", location="nam", emailme=True, autodiagnotifications=True)
accounts.create_subaccount(token, args)

Updating Accounts

Uses the accounts.AccountUpdate dataclass, which has all optional values, including an additional status key to allow activating or suspending subaccounts.

token = "my-token"
customerid = "201205102227VZ6XU"
args = accounts.AccountUpdate(name="ChangedTheName", status="Suspend")
accounts.update_account(token, args, customerid=customerid)

Deleting Subaccounts

token = "my-token"
customerid = "201205102227VZ6XU"
accounts.delete_subaccount(token, customerid)

Disabling Notifications

You can disable or enable notifications on your account or subaccount. Doing this on a parent account will not disable notifications on subaccounts.

token = "my-token"
accounts.disable_notifications(token, customerid)

Checks Module

This module manages checks on your account and subaccount.

from nodepingpy import checks

If you are going to create checks, also import the checktypes module to use the dataclasses for creating different check types.

from nodepingpy.nptypes import checktypes

Get All Checks

token = "my-token"
checks.get_all(token)

You can also get all checks with their uptime

token = "my-token"
checks.get_all_uptime(token)

Get Single or Many Checks

Use this method to get one check on your account or subaccount.

token = "my-token"
checkid = "201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF"
checks.get_by_id(token, checkid)

Or many

token = "my-token"
checkids = ["201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF", "201205050153W2Q4C-4RZT8MLN"]
checks.get_many(token, checkids)

You can also get current events ("down" or "disabled") by setting current to True

token = "my-token"
checkids = ["201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF", "201205050153W2Q4C-4RZT8MLN"]
checks.get_many(token, checkids, current=True)

Get Uptime

You can get uptime for checks. There is a combination of getting all one, many, or all checks, with all uptime, and with uptime stats back to a certain date.

Get all uptime

token = "my-token"
checks.get_uptime(token, "all")

Get uptime for a list of checks

token = "my-token"
checkids = ["201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF", "201205050153W2Q4C-4RZT8MLN"]
checks.get_uptime(token, checkids)

Uptime back to a certain date

token = "my-token"
checks.get_uptime(token, "all", "2024-01-01)

Get lastresult

This gets the last result for a single check

token = "my-token"
checkid = "201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF"
checks.get_last_result(token, checkid)

Other GET Methods

Get passing checks

token = "my-token"
checks.get_passing(token)

Get failing checks

token = "my-token"
checks.get_failing(token)

Get active checks

token = "my-token"
checks.get_active(token)

Get inactive checks

token = "my-token"
checks.get_inactive(token)

Create a Check

To create a check, checktype dataclasses were created to have more convenient access to the different fields for each TYPE. For example, creating a PING check

from nodepingpy import checks
from nodepingpy.nptypes import checktypes
token = "my-token"
args = checktypes.PingCheck("example.com", ipv6=False, label="ping example.com", interval=1, autodiag=True, sens=5, runlocations="nam")
checks.create_check(token, args)

If you do not want to import all check types, you can import only the check types you want:

from nodepingpy.nptypes import PingCheck, HttpCheck, MtrCheck

Update a Check

Updating a check requires passing in a dictionary of keys to update in the check being updated. For example, replacing the label and fields key in a PUSH check:

from nodepingpy import checks
token = "my-token"
checkid = "201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF"
newlabel = "PUSH checking stuff"
fields = {
        "checknum": {
            "name": "checknum",
            "min": 0,
            "max": 5
        },
        "check2": {
            "name": "check2.item",
            "min": 0,
            "max": 0
        }
    }
args = {"label": newlabel, "fields": fields}
checks.update_check(token, checkid, "PUSH", args)

Delete a Check

from nodepingpy import checks
token = "my-token"
checkid = "201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF"
checks.delete_check(token, checkid)

Mute a Check

Mute for 10 minutes

from time import time
from nodepingpy import checks
token = "my-token"
checkid = "201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF"
ts_later = round((time() + 600) * 1000)
checks.mute_check(token, checkid, ts_later)

You can also set duration to True or False to indefinitely mute or unmute the check.

from nodepingpy import checks
token = "my-token"
checkid = "201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF"
checks.mute_check(token, True, duration)

Disable All

Disable all checks on the account. True will disable all checks, but not affect subaccounts. False to re-enable. This will not re-enable checks that were previously disabled using the "enabled" element in a check.

from nodepingpy import checks
token = "my-token"
checks.disable_all(token, True)

Disable By

There are a few ways to disable checks:

1. By type: (PING, HTTP, DNS, etc.)
2. By label: the label provided for the check
3. By target: the FQDN, IP, URL in the target field

These are matched with regex. Like with disable_all, re-enabling checks will only work with checks that weren't previously disabled by using the 'enabled' element.

In this example, checks with the label including "example.com" will be disabled.

from nodepingpy import checks
token = "my-token"
disabletype = "label"
string = "example.com"
checks.disable_by(token, disabletype, string, True)

Contacts Module

To use this module, import it into your project

from nodepingpy import contacts

Get All Contacts

from nodepingpy import contacts
token = "my-token"
contacts.get_all(token)

Get One Contact

NodePing contacts contain your account ID as well as a 5-character value after it, like "201205050153W2Q4C-BKPGH".

from nodepingpy import contacts
token = "my-token"
contactid = "201205050153W2Q4C-BKPGH"
contacts.get_one(token, contactid)

Get by Type

Get contacts by type, such as email, sms, webhook.

from nodepingpy import contacts
token = "my-token"
contacttype = "email"
contacts.get_by_type(token, contacttype)

Create a Contact

from nodepingpy import contacts
token = "my-token"
customerid = "201205050153W2Q4C"
name = "Bob Alice"
custrole = "edit"
newaddresses = [{'address': '[email protected]', 'type': 'email'}, {'address': '5551238888', 'type': 'sms'}]
contacts.create(token, customerid, custrole, name, newaddresses)

Update Existing Addresses

Updating existing addresses requires getting the current addresses, modifying their contents, and then PUT them back. To add addresses to the contact, you will use the newaddresses key with the additional info.

>>> from nodepingpy import contacts
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> token = "my-token"
>>> contactid = "201205050153W2Q4C-BKPGH"
>>> result = contacts.get_one(token, contactid)
>>> addresses = result["addresses"]
>>> pprint(addresses)
{'JMMARFHQ': {'accountsupressall': False, 'address': '[email protected]'},
 'NMYW1XC1': {'accountsupressall': False, 'address': '[email protected]'},
 'P080YGYO': {'accountsuppressall': False, 'address': '321444777'}}
>>> addresses["JMMARFHQ"]["address"] = "[email protected]"
>>> newaddresses = [{'accountsupressall': True, 'address': '[email protected]'}]
>>> contacts.update(token, contactid, {"addresses": addresses, "newaddresses": newaddresses})

Removing a Contact Method

To remove a contact method, take the existing contact methods in a contact, remove it from the dictionary of addresses, and then submit the updated contact methods. For example

>>> from nodepingpy import contacts
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> token = "my-token"
>>> contactid = "201205050153W2Q4C-BKPGH"
>>> result = contacts.get_one(token, contactid)
>>> addresses = result["addresses"]
>>> pprint(addresses)
{'JMMARFHQ': {'accountsupressall': False, 'address': '[email protected]'},
 'NMYW1XC1': {'accountsupressall': False, 'address': '[email protected]'},
 'P080YGYO': {'accountsuppressall': False, 'address': '321444777'}}
>>> del addresses["JMMARFHQ"]
>>> contacts.update(token, contactid, {"addresses": addresses})

Muting a Contact Method

Muting a contact method involves muting not a whole contact, but just one of the contact methods. In the above example, it could involve muting only the SMS number 321444777 with key P080YGYO only in the contact.

from nodepingpy import contacts
token = "my-token"
contactid = "201205050153W2Q4C-BKPGH"
method_id = "P080YGYO"
contact = contacts.get_one(token, contactid)
duration = True # this will mute it forever, or until set back to False
contacts.mute_contact_method(token, contact, method_id, duration)

Muting a Contact

Compared to the last example, this mutes the entire contact. The contact ID 201205050153W2Q4C-BKPGH

from nodepingpy import contacts
token = "my-token"
contactid = "201205050153W2Q4C-BKPGH"
contact = contacts.get_one(token, contactid)
duration = True # this will mute it forever, or until set back to False
contacts.mute_contact(token, contact, duration)

Delete a Contact

from nodepingpy import contacts
token = "my-token"
contactid = "201205050153W2Q4C-BKPGH"
contacts.delete_contact(token, contactid)

Reset a Password

Reset password for a contact. A new password will be emailed to the contact.

from nodepingpy import contacts
token = "my-token"
contactid = "201205050153W2Q4C-BKPGH"
contacts.reset_password(token, contactid)

Contactgroups Module

To use this module, import it into your project

from nodepingpy import contactgroups

Get All Contact Groups

from nodepingpy import contactgroups
token = "my-token"
contactgroups.get_all(token)

Get One ContactGroup

from nodepingpy import contactgroups
token = "my-token"
id = "201205050153W2Q4C-G-3QJWG"
contactgroups.get(token, id)

Create a Contact Group

To create a contact group, a list of contact methods are needed. For example above in updating a contact, you would use the address keys, like below, and create a contact group called "sysadmins", for example.

from nodepingpy import contactgroups
token = "my-token"
contactlist = ["JMMARFHQ", "NMYW1XC1", "P080YGYO"]
name = "sysadmins"
contactgroups.create(token, name, contactlist)

Update a Contact Group

Updating an existing contactgroup takes a dictionary as an argument with keys name and/or members as a key, like the arguments in creating a contactgroup.

from nodepingpy import contactgroups
token = "my-token"
id = "201205050153W2Q4C-G-3QJWG"
args = {"name": "SysAdmin", "members: ["JMMARFHQ", "NMYW1XC1"]}
contactgroups.update(token, id, args)

Delete a Contact Group

from nodepingpy import contactgroups
token = "my-token"
id = "201205050153W2Q4C-G-3QJWG"
contactgroups.delete(token, id)

Diagnostics Module

Request diagnotics information from a probe or an AGENT. Dataclasses are available to pass in as an argument.

For example, running an MTR diagnostic:

from nodepingpy import diagnostics
from nodepingpy.nptypes import diagtypes
token = "my-token"
checkid = "201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF"
args = diagtypes.Mtr(location="tx", target="example.com", count=20)
diagnostics.get(token, checkid, args)

This will run an MTR with a count of 20 from the probe in Texas with example.com as the target.

Information Module

Get probe and location information

Get Probes

Get all probes

from nodepingpy import information
token = "my-token"
information.get_all_probes(token)

Or a single probe

from nodepingpy import information
token = "my-token"
probe = "tx" # get texas
information.get_probe(token, probe)

Get Locations

Get all locations/regions

from nodepingpy import information
token = "my-token"
information.get_all_locations(token)

Or a single location, like North America (nam)

from nodepingpy import information
token = "my-token"
location = "nam"
information.get_location(token, location)

Maintenance Module

This module allows you to create, update, get, and delete ad-hoc and scheduled maintenaneces.

Can be imported with

from nodepingpy import maintenance

Get Maintenances

Get all maintenance schedules

from nodepingpy import maintenance
token = "my-token"
maintenance.get_all(token)

Or one maintenance by ID

from nodepingpy import maintenance
token = "my-token"
maintenance_id = "NZT101"
maintenance.get(token, maintenance_id)

Create a Maintenance

There are two types of maintenance:

1. ad-hoc
2. scheduled (cron)

maintenancetype dataclasses are available to pass in as args. The below example creates an ad-hoc 30 minute maintenance.

from nodepingpy import maintenance
from nodepingpy.nptypes.maintenancetypes import AdHocCreate
token = "my-token"
duration = 30
checkids = ["201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF", "201205050153W2Q4C-4RZT8MLN"]
enabled = True
name = "Rebooting the server"
args = AdHocCreate(duration, checkids, enabled, name)
maintenance.create(token, args)

To create a scheduled/cron maintenance

from nodepingpy import maintenance
from nodepingpy.nptypes.maintenancetypes import ScheduledCreate
token = "my-token"
duration = 30
checkids = ["201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF", "201205050153W2Q4C-4RZT8MLN"]
enabled = True
name = "Rebooting the server"
cron = "30 8 15 * *"
args = ScheduledCreate(duration, checkids, enabled, name, cron)
maintenance.create(token, args)

Update a Maintenance

Updating a maintenance is similar to creating one, except you would supply the maintenance ID in addition to the Scheduled or AdHoc dataclass.

For example, updating a Scheduled maintenance, and say from the previous example you wanted to set the duration to 60 minutes from 30.

from nodepingpy import maintenance
from nodepingpy.nptypes.maintenancetypes import ScheduledUpdate
token = "my-token"
duration = 60
checkids = ["201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF", "201205050153W2Q4C-4RZT8MLN"]
enabled = True
name = "Rebooting the server"
cron = "30 8 15 * *"
maintenance_id = "NZT101"
args = ScheduledUpdate(duration, checkids, enabled, name, cron)
maintenance.update(token, maintenance_id, args)

Delete a Maintenance

Delete any maintenance. You don't have to specify if it is AdHoc or Scheduled.

from nodepingpy import maintenance
token = "my-token"
maintenance_id = "NZT101"
maintenance.delete(token, maintenance_id)

Notification Profiles Module

Can be imported with

from nodepingpy import notificationprofiles

Getting Notification Profiles

Getting all profiles

from nodepingpy import notificationprofiles
token = "my-token"
notificationprofiles.get_all(token)

Getting a single profile

from nodepingpy import notificationprofiles
token = "my-token"
id = "201205050153W2Q4C-P-3QJWG"
notificationprofiles.get(token, id)

Create a Notification Profile

Notification profiles combine contact IDs, notification delays, and schedules so you can easily assign notifications to multiple checks if you want the same contacts to receive notifications on the same schedule across checks, and be able to update the profile without having to update any checks.

from nodepingpy import notificationprofiles
token = "my-token"
notifications = [{"A4597":{"delay":0, "schedule":"All"}}, {"Y59XV":{"delay":2, "schedule":"Days"}}]
name = "My Profile"
notificationprofiles.create(token, name, notifications)

Update a Notification Profile

Updating a notification profile is the same as creating a new one, only that you provide the existing profile's ID

from nodepingpy import notificationprofiles
token = "my-token"
notifications = [{"A4597":{"delay":0, "schedule":"All"}}, {"Y59XV":{"delay":2, "schedule":"Days"}}]
name = "My New Name"
id = "201205050153W2Q4C-P-3QJWG"
notificationprofiles.update(token, id, name, notifications)

Delete a Notification Profile

Delete a profile

from nodepingpy import notificationprofiles
token = "my-token"
id = "201205050153W2Q4C-P-3QJWG"
notificationprofiles.delete(token, id)

Notifications Module

Get notifications for a check or the account.

Can be imported with

from nodepingpy import notifications

Here are some examples:

Get the last 100 notifications

from nodepingpy import notifications
token = "my-token"
args = notifications.Notification(limit=100)
notifications.get(token, args)

Get the last 200 notifications, including subaccounts

from nodepingpy import notifications
token = "my-token"
args = notifications.Notification(limit=200, subaccounts=True)
notifications.get(token, args)

Get notifications in the last 24 hours for a specific check

from nodepingpy import notifications
token = "my-token"
args = notifications.Notification("201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF", 24)
notifications.get(token, args)

Results Module

Can be imported with

from nodepingpy import results

Get Results

This example gets up to the last 300 results, and starting at 2024-03-10

from nodepingpy import results
from nodepingpy.nptypes.resulttypes import Results
token = "my-token"
id = "201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF"
args = Results(limit=300, start="YYYY-MM-DD")
results.get(token, id, args)

This same function is used to also get resulttypes.Uptime and resulttypes.Events.

Get Current Results

Get current events happening for checks

from nodepingpy import results
token = "my-token"
results.get_current(token)

Get Summary

Retrieves hourly summary information about the results for a specific check.

from nodepingpy import results
token = "my-token"
id = "201205050153W2Q4C-0J2HSIRF"
results.get_summary(token, id)

Schedules Module

Can be imported with

from nodepingpy import schedules

Get Schedules

Get all schedules

from nodepingpy import schedules
token = "my-token"
schedules.get_all(token)

Get one schedule. These are given names, and are not gotten by an ID

from nodepingpy import schedules
token = "my-token"
schedule_name = "Day"
schedules.get(token, schedule_name)

Create or Update a Schedule

To create/update a schedule, a dictionary needs to be provided with start/stop information for each day of the week.

from nodepingpy import schedules
token = "my-token"
schedule_name = "WorkDay"
schedule = {'data': {'friday': {'disabled': True},
                     'monday': {'allday': True},
                     'saturday': {'exclude': False, 'time1': '6:00', 'time2': '18:00'},
                     'sunday': {'exclude': False, 'time1': '6:00', 'time2': '18:00'},
                     'thursday': {'exclude': False, 'time1': '6:00', 'time2': '18:00'},
                     'tuesday': {'exclude': False, 'time1': '6:00', 'time2': '18:00'},
                     'wednesday': {'exclude': False, 'time1': '6:00', 'time2': '18:00'}}}
schedules.create(token, schedule_name, schedule)

Delete a Schedule

from nodepingpy import schedules
token = "my-token"
schedule_name = "Day"
schedules.delete(token, schedule_name)