SAM Application Monitoring Templates

Application Monitoring Templates

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor (SAM) includes a number of Application Monitoring Templates. Templates can be exported and imported to/from a file.

How to import Application Monitoring Template

Orion SDK has ImportTemplate verb on Orion.APM.ApplicationTemplate entity which allows for automation of the process of importing Application Monitoring Templates to SAM. For example, in order to import a template from MyTemplate.apm-template file invoke the following PowerShell code:

# Load the template to a variable
$template = (Get-Content -Path ".\MyTemplate.apm-template" | Out-String)
# Import template
$result = Invoke-SwisVerb -Swis $swis Orion.APM.ApplicationTemplate ImportTemplate @($template)
$templateId = $result.InnerText
Write-Host "Imported template Id: $templateId"

How to export Application Monitoring Template

Similarly, when you know the id of a template, you can export it to a file. The following code exports template of id 1 to MyTemplate.apm-template.

$templateId = 1
# Export the template to a variable
$result = Invoke-SwisVerb -Swis $swis Orion.APM.ApplicationTemplate ExportTemplate @($templateId)
$exportedTemplate = $res.InnerText
# Save the template to a file
$exportedTemplate | Out-File ".\MyTemplate.apm-template"

How to change Application Monitoring Template name

In order to change the name of a template, you need Uri of the template and then calling Set-SwisObject. Uri can be constructed as in the example below or found by selecting Uri column of ApplicationTemplate entity.

$uri = "swis://<hostname>/Orion/Orion.APM.ApplicationTemplate/ApplicationTemplateID=1"
$properties = @{
    Name="My new template";
}
Set-SwisObject $swis -Uri $uri -Properties $properties