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Update a Custom Vendor Certification

You can update an existing custom vendor certification. Continuing with our example, you previously made a few changes to your custom metric family and to your custom vendor certification.

To your metric family, you added metrics. To your vendor certification, you added a MIB table, and you included filtering to your custom vendor certification. Now, update the vendor certification for the changes to take effect.

Note: For information about the effects of updating a tag or attribute, review the custom vendor certification XML details. In particular, review the specific attribute descriptions.

Follow these steps:

  1. Enter the following addresss In the URL field: 
    http://da_hostname:8581/typecatalog/certifications/snmp/CustomVendorCertName
    CustomVendorCertName

    Is the name of the custom vendor certification to update. For our example, the vendor certification is named frPVCInfoCustom.

  2. To verify that the vendor certification exists at that URL, select GET in the Method tab.
  3. After you verify that the vendor certification exists at the URL, select PUT in the Method tab.
  4. Copy and paste your updated custom metric family XML into the Body tab (Edit field) and set the Content-type to application/xml.

    Important! Failing to set the Content-type results in a 404 error.

  5. Click the Go button next to the URL field.

    Your custom vendor certification is updated. If no errors occur, the Status field in the HTTP Response section displays the following message:

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK

    Note: Any other return code indicates that an error occurred while updating your custom vendor certification. Fix the error and retry updating the vendor certification by doing another PUT.

    Important! To avoid possible data loss, always back up your deploy directory each time you create or update a vendor certification, metric family, or component.

More information:

Understanding the Vendor Certification XML Structure

Update a Custom Metric Family