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Billing by Sensor Count?

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Hello all,

I have been playing with the billing tool, which is fantastic Im sure from what it does, but I would like to be able to bill clients simply by the total number of sensors under their remote probe.

It looks like I need to utilize a sensor factory, but this doesnt actually solve the issue, since the sensor factory also breaks down to analyzing data rather than counting total sensors deployed.

I realize this is a somewhat obscure question, but if anyone has suggestions on how this could be done, I would be very grateful.

billing prtg sensors

Created on Jun 12, 2012 10:50:35 PM



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Could you please elucidate? Do you want to bill based on the number of sensors or on the actual data the sensors are showing?

Created on Jun 13, 2012 11:27:49 AM by Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (7,225) ●3 ●3



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Just looking to bill solely off total sensor count under a remote probe. I worked on answering this myself, and have come close with the API. Running the following API query gets me a speadsheet with a sensor list, with Probe being a column I can sort ...

/api/table.xml?content=sensors&output=csvtable&columns=objid,probe,group,device,sensor

This is a step in the right direction, but the ultimate goal would be an API I can feed into the billing tool, that just produces the number of sensors under a probe

Example:

RemoteProbe1=52

Created on Jun 13, 2012 3:50:25 PM




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