REST API to get Current Server Time

[asif_baig]

Hello,

We have a requirement to know "CURRENT SERVER TIME" where Qlik EM is installed before we fire any other REST API request.

Currently, I am only seeing related API call as : GetServerDetails

But this call does not have any helpful "server_time" option available.

Is there any other way we could rely on Qlik EM REST API to get Server wall clock Time?

[Anonymous]

@asif_baig 

If you are using  PowerShell scripts you can use:

$time = get-date -Format HH:mm:ss

Keep in mind that the time is replicate server is CET.

Thank you

Avidar

[Heinvandenheuvel · Accepted solution]

@asif_baig  I don't think that information is available though the Enterprise Manager API. You'd have to use a (Windows) native API.

Please explain why you think this servertime is a requirement versus a nice-to-know? What main problem are we trying to solve here? Perhaps there are other solutions. Maybe something in the AEM Postgres database?

The GetServerDetails and  GetServer API's refer to the registered Replicate and Compose 'slave' servers, not to the Enterprice manager server " as per input parameter:

Parameter: server
Type: string
Description:The specified server name in Qlik Enterprise Manager.

@Anonymous  The Powershell get-date example as provided would only give the local time, which may or might not be the Enterprise Manager server time. You'd have to provide the EM server IP.

Also, you wrote "replicate server is CET."  -  maybe for you, but not for all right? why would this be? Please explain if you really think it is CET for everyone.

Regards,

Hein

[lyka]

Hello,

Did any of the proposed solution worked?

Thanks

Lyka

[gabbybustard]

Hi @-super mario bros, in the past we used a local admin user account to connect the server in the qlik Enterprise manager. This doesn't work anymore because local users are not allowed anymore. 

[avidary_qlik]

@asif_baig

If you are using PowerShell scripts you can use:

$time = get-date -Format HH:mm:ss

Keep in mind that the time in the CT tables is CET.

Thank you

Avidar