Automate Pingdom Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData API Driver for ADO.NET is a standard ADO.NET Provider that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time access to Pingdom.

ADO.NET Provider

The ADO.NET Provider provides a SQL interface for Pingdom; this tutorial shows how to use the Provider to retrieve Pingdom data.

Once you have acquired the necessary connection properties, accessing Pingdom data in PowerShell can be enabled in three steps.

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Pingdom Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Pingdom.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Pingdom (see below).

Pingdom API Profile Settings

In your Pingdom account, navigate to Integrations > The Pingdom API and create a new API Token to use as your API key.

1. Load the provider's assembly:

   [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\CData\CData API Driver for ADO.NET\lib\System.Data.CData.API.dll")
    

2. Connect to Pingdom:

    
   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIConnection("Profile=C:\profiles\Pingdom.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_token';")
   $conn.Open()
   

3. Instantiate the APIDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

   $sql="SELECT UserId, Username from Actions"
   
   $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIDataAdapter($sql, $conn)
   $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable
   $da.Fill($dt)
   
   $dt.Rows | foreach {
   	Write-Host $_.userid $_.username
   }