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API adding node with powershell missing Perstack

Hi all,

We have been using the api to add nodes through our ordering system and also use powershell to bulk add nodes. We noticed that when adding nodes this way, the Perfstack Latency and Packetloss widget stays hidden. If we than go to the Webui and manually update the created node that is missing the data and save it, the widget will than be visible with the data.

When manually adding a node through the Webui, the widget will show up immediately and with data.

Are we missing a specific setting we need to address in our automation?

Platform:
NPM
Version 2020.2.6

API string in powershell:
$NewNode = Orion-AddNode -SwisConnection $Swis -NodeName $Node.NodeName -NodeIPAddress $Node.NodeIPAddress -PollingEngineID $Node.PollingEngineID -PollingMethod $Node.PollingMethod -SNMPV2Community $Node.SNMPV2Community

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adam.beedell

You'll be missing adding a poller for ICMP or similar
I dont understand adding nodes via the API well, but mostly because I get confused and bounce off this stage

I believe the Idea is to add a node, then add a list of stuff to do against it. Not sure how scans and stuff get integrated personally but there's examples floating around the forum

smarwitz

Hi Adam,
Indeed the variables for adding a ICMP poller is in the script. We define the variables for a ICMP Only Node here:
{
$NewICMPNodeProps = @{
IPAddress = $NodeIPAddress;
EngineID = $PollingEngineID;
Caption = $NodeName;
ObjectSubType =$PollingMethod;
External = $false
Allow64BitCounters=$Allow64BitCounters;
}

And use that to create the node once the ICMP poller is added. What we discovered is that if you do not explicitly set the 'External property' (marked in red above) it will be populated without a value. Which would than result in no historical data being gathered and displayed in Perfstack widget.