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

https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/xpAPIViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+Connections+6.0+API+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Downloading_a_file_ic60&content=apicontent

• 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
    
    
• 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
  
  

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(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