This article should give some sort of idea what one can do with this new Type of Sensor. It is a practical example in which a certain area of an IBM Connections Platform can be checked via a REST API call.
We will perform a file download from a IBM Connections environment where the aim is to check if the authentication, connection as well the download of a physical file is works.
Configuration
We use the official API document of IBM to utilize the REST API of Connections
- upload a file manually into connections. This is the file which we want to download on a regular basis
- write down the document-id of the uploaded file
- write down the document-id of the uploaded file
- open the REST Service Sensor
- Enter the protocoll as well username/password
- Enter the following string to the Respurce path
- /files/basic/anonymous/api/document/<your document id>/entry
- choose GET as the method and XML as the header
- optional you can enter inline=true as a query parameter
- assign your connections server as a target
- specify actions and schedule
save close
(example)
Result
As a result you get a lot of key/value pairs back. The important key/value pair however is greenlight.rest.http-status. If you get 200, then everything is fine and works. If you get any other http error code back, please check in the IBM API Documentation the explanation