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Monitor N-able N-central managed estate — service organizations, customers, sites, devices, inventory, service status, and active issues. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PluginUI
participant preRequest
participant NCentralAPI
participant DataStreams
participant Dashboards
PluginUI->>preRequest: Provide host and User-API Token
preRequest->>NCentralAPI: Exchange User-API Token
NCentralAPI-->>preRequest: Return access token
preRequest->>DataStreams: Add Authorization header
DataStreams->>NCentralAPI: Request entity and monitoring data
NCentralAPI-->>DataStreams: Return paginated API data
DataStreams-->>Dashboards: Provide normalized stream records
Dashboards-->>PluginUI: Render counts, charts, and tables
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In `@plugins/N-Central/v1/dataStreams/customerActiveIssues.json`:
- Line 37: Update the notificationState field definition in the customer active
issues stream to use a state shape with a map from the documented numeric API
codes to Stale, Warning, Failed, Misconfigured, Disconnected, and Disabled
status categories. Preserve unmapped numeric codes as unknown, and leave the
field name and display name unchanged.
- Around line 53-55: Replace the fixed _extra.customerTree.0, .1, and .2 entries
with a single hidden metadata pattern matching _extra\.customerTree\..*.
Preserve the false visibility setting so all customerTree hierarchy levels
remain mapped but hidden.
In `@plugins/N-Central/v1/dataStreams/deviceList.json`:
- Around line 9-42: The device-list configuration currently exposes separate
customer and site selectors, allowing conflicting selections and silently
prioritizing site. Replace them with one optional single-object selector
accepting both “N-central Customer” and “N-central Site” source types, and
update the endpointPath expression to build api/org-units/{rawId}/devices from
that selector, falling back to api/devices when unset.
Apply the same fix in
`@plugins/N-Central/v1/defaultContent/customerPerspective.dash.json` around lines
196 - 207: The dashboard bindings must use the unified single-object selector.
In `@plugins/N-Central/v1/dataStreams/deviceServiceMonitorStatus.json`:
- Line 38: Update the timeToStale field’s displayName to remove the “(s)”
suffix, leaving the concise neutral label while preserving the existing seconds
shape.
- Around line 41-44: Align the shapes of taskId, serviceId, and serviceItemId in
this stream with the raw API types and their declarations in
customerActiveIssues.json; update both files consistently to the correct shared
shape so correlation works across streams.
- Around line 35-37: Confirm the raw N-central datetime format, then update
transitionTime in
plugins/N-Central/v1/dataStreams/deviceServiceMonitorStatus.json:35-37 with the
matching inputPattern used by lastScanTime when the values share that format;
also apply the confirmed inputPattern to _extra.transitionTime in
plugins/N-Central/v1/dataStreams/customerActiveIssues.json:38-43 when it is not
ISO 8601, while preserving ISO 8601 handling and converting Unix timestamps if
applicable.
In `@plugins/N-Central/v1/dataStreams/scripts/deviceAssets.js`:
- Around line 92-117: Normalize each non-null _index to a string before every
byIndex lookup and insertion in the bodyList and extraList processing, so
numeric and string representations merge into the same Map entry and produce one
complete asset row.
- Around line 46-56: Update the row construction in the asset-mapping logic to
derive id from the stable _index field used by the merge logic, falling back to
the category counter when _index is unavailable; preserve the existing category
and name values and ensure the synthetic id remains assigned after spreading raw
details.
In `@plugins/N-Central/v1/defaultContent/overview.dash.json`:
- Around line 317-320: Rename the table tile title in
plugins/N-Central/v1/defaultContent/overview.dash.json lines 317-320 so it
differs from the scalar “Active Issues” tile at line 157. Apply the same
table-title rename in
plugins/N-Central/v1/defaultContent/customerPerspective.dash.json lines 134-137
to avoid duplicating the scalar tile title at line 21.
- Around line 181-221: Update the overview dashboard’s
deviceServiceMonitorStatus tiles, including the “Services in Error State” tile,
to avoid querying the Devices scope per device: use a customer-scoped or
unscoped data source, or remove both affected tiles from the estate-wide
overview.
In `@plugins/N-Central/v1/metadata.json`:
- Line 4: Update the version value in metadata.json to an initial 1.x release so
its major version matches the enclosing v1 directory; retain 2.0.1 only if the
plugin is intentionally moved to a matching v2 directory.
In `@plugins/N-Central/v1/ui.json`:
- Around line 17-21: Add a concise example or usage instruction as the
placeholder for the userApiToken field in the UI configuration, keeping its
password type, required validation, and existing help text unchanged.
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- Reset version to 1.0.0 to match the v1 directory, consistent with every other plugin in the repo (no prior public 1.x release existed) - Replace the separate customer/site pickers on the Devices stream with a single optional selector accepting either type, removing the ambiguity of conflicting selections; update the customer and site perspective dashboards to bind to the unified selector - Remove the two Overview dashboard tiles that queried the per-device deviceServiceMonitorStatus stream against the entire estate (no bulk equivalent exists in N-central's REST API), which would fire one HTTP request per managed device on every page load Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Add a placeholder example to the userApiToken config field - Add the matching inputPattern to transitionTime (same custom non-ISO format as lastScanTime in the same response, confirmed via N-able's OpenAPI schema) - Fix taskId/serviceId/serviceItemId shape from string to number to match the raw N-central API (int32) and customerActiveIssues.json, so the fields correlate correctly across streams Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thanks for this @arobavet. Good timing — one of our team had also just started work on an N-Able plugin. We've compared notes, and I've asked @Deenk to review your PR: at a glance yours covers a few more data streams, and with your real-world usage behind it, it should be the more battle-tested of the two. We'll review this PR and look to get it merged in soon pending any feedback etc. Thanks! |
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In `@plugins/N-Central/v1/docs/README.md`:
- Line 12: Use the configured UI label “Server URL” consistently: update the
user-facing field reference in plugins/N-Central/v1/docs/README.md lines 12-12
and 20-20, and update the validation error in
plugins/N-Central/v1/configValidation.json line 7 to replace “Base URL” with
“Server URL”.
In `@plugins/N-Central/v1/indexDefinitions/default.json`:
- Line 10: Remove the N-central prefix from source type names: update
plugins/N-Central/v1/indexDefinitions/default.json at 10-10, 20-20, 31-31, and
42-42 to Service Organization, Customer, Site, and Device respectively; update
plugins/N-Central/v1/defaultContent/scopes.json at 5-5, 17-17, 29-29, and 41-41
to match; and update plugins/N-Central/v1/dataStreams/soCustomers.json at 23-23
and 31-31 to reference Service Organization and emit Customer.
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Applied consistently across metadata.json, custom_types.json, indexDefinitions, scopes, and all matching data streams. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…omers Endpoint has no server-side filtering; smaller pages keep each request fast enough to avoid the per-request timeout on customers with many active issues. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The unscoped devices stream paginates ~1200+ devices at pageSize=100 (~12 requests), which hits SquaredUp's overall fetch timeout and truncates the import, undercounting the Overview "Devices" tile. N-central's API allows pageSize up to 1000, cutting this to ~2 requests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tile counted objects in the "Devices" scope via the generic properties/count mechanism, which caps at 500 matched objects — so the tile was permanently stuck at 500 regardless of the real device total (5297 on this tenant). Added a dedicated deviceCount stream that reads the "totalItems" field the API already returns in its pagination envelope (via a single pageSize=1 request), and pointed the Overview tile at it instead of the capped scope count. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fewer round-trips per customer reduces total fetch time, which is the actual lever for the overall-fetch timeout (confirmed while fixing the devices import). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same endpoint family as devices/customerActiveIssues; fewer round-trips reduces total fetch time for customers/sites with many devices. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The scalar, donut, and table tiles all query customerActiveIssues scoped to every Customer, which never reliably renders on tenants with large active-issue volumes even with the larger page size. Still available on the Customer perspective if needed there. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Just a couple small and probably optional things. No breaking issues from what I can see as I think the coderabbit review has addressed most of it!
Very nice work!
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OK/No State/Unknown aren't documented anywhere for this field; dropped them. Added Disconnected (confirmed in both the official API reference example and the Active Issues user guide) to the warning bucket alongside Stale. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Warning now maps only "Warning" itself; Misconfigured, Stale, and Disconnected move to the unknown bucket alongside No Data. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The API returns transitionTime without a timezone offset, unlike
lastScanTime — the shared inputPattern required one, so every
transitionTime value silently failed to parse ("not a valid date").
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Extended matches to Customer and Site (the underlying endpoint is per-org-unit, not customer-specific), and updated the customer perspective dashboard's references accordingly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…central # Conflicts: # plugins/N-Central/v1/metadata.json
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LGTM! Thanks for making the changes
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Adds a new community plugin to monitor the N-able N-central managed estate — service organizations, customers, sites, devices, inventory, service monitoring status, lifecycle info, and active issues, via the N-central REST API.
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