Rest API returning Success even when Failed

[optionstechnology]

I use the rest API to add hosts via Powershell

Since I am adding a large number of hosts at the same time I add the hosts without restarting the config and when they are all added restart the nagios server with the following-

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Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Uri "https://nagiosserver/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/host?apikey=##########" -Body "force=1&applyconfig=1"

This gets the response-

success
-------
Successfully added to the system. Config applied, Nagios Core was restarted.

The problem is that sometimes the Nagios server doesn't restart- sometimes there is a config issue that prevents it- but the API command still returns the success message...

Is there any way to show that the Nagios server has actually restarted successfully?

[tgriep]

You can use the Get System/Status API and verify that the "program_start_time": "2017-07-19 15:03:46", has changed after the previous API was executed.
Here is the API.

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curl -XGET  "https://nagiosserver/nagiosxi/api/v1/system/status?apikey=######&pretty=1""

Would that work for you?

[optionstechnology]

That that would work

Thanks

[bolson]

May we close this topic?