diff --git a/Bulk-Import-Services.md b/Bulk-Import-Services.md index 2060465..162027f 100644 --- a/Bulk-Import-Services.md +++ b/Bulk-Import-Services.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -You can import multiple services when the Statping service first loads by creating a file named [service.yml](https://github.com/statping/statping/wiki/services.yml). It will insert the new service into the database, and will not be re-added on reboot. +You can import multiple services when Statping first loads by creating a file named [service.yml](https://github.com/statping/statping/wiki/services.yml) in the working directory for Statping. It will insert the new service into the database, and will not be re-added on reboot. All services must be an array under the `services:` field. ## Custom Yaml With Yaml, you can insert "anchors" to make receptive fields simple! Checkout the example below. The `&tcpservice` anchor will return all the fields belonging to `x-tcpservice:`. To reuse these fields for each service, you can insert `<<: *tcpservice` and thats it! @@ -40,4 +40,11 @@ services: - name: Statping Github domain: https://github.com/statping/statping <<: *httpservice +``` + +## Duplicates +Services that have already been added into the database will not be added again. This is done by creating a SHA256 hash of the following fields... + +``` +sha256(name:EXAMPLEdomain:HTTP://DOMAIN.COMport:8080type:HTTPmethod:GET) ``` \ No newline at end of file