Want to do a ListResources import programatically and choose which ones to import.

I'm trying to programmatically add devices, discover them, and import resources using python. Currently I'm tryin to import resources, I'm using the following:

- ScheduleListResources - to do a List Resources on the node

- GetScheduledListResourcesStatus - to determine when it's ready to import

- ImportListResourcesResult - to import the resulting resources that were found

However, this appears to import EVERYTHING. I'd like to be able to iterate through the resources found and pick and choose prior to importing. However, I don't see any way to get the resulting list, and to selectively choose what to import. The ScheduleListResources merely returns the jobId, GetScheduleListResourcesStatus merely lets me know of success/failure, and ImportListResourcesResult appears to only take the jobId and NodeID of the resulting job to import everything.

Anyone know how to get a list of the resources found and then import only what I want?

thanks!

Paul

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mesverrum

The way I had managed this in the past was to run discoveries against the target node(s) and then remove entries i don't like from the discovered objects tables, and then import the remaining results.

SilentMuse

Hmmm.... From what I've been able to discern (I'm fairly new to Orion) it seems that Discovery discovers info about the server, but doesn't get filesystems nor interfaces. Am I misunderstanding? it appears I need to do ListResources to get those....

mesverrum

No, discovery absolutely can get file systems Interfaces, and has some ability to filter the discovered results before importing them, but I found the built in filters weren't granular enough for me. That's why I ended up adding the step of removing those items that I didn't want via sdk or sql before executing an import.

SilentMuse

Fair enough. Any chance you might be able to tell me which tables you're looking at to get the discovered items list? If you'd be willing to share the swis queries you used that'd be awesome, but I'll take what I can get...

John_Mason

[quote userid="245123" url="~/product-forums/the-orion-platform/f/orion-sdk/100770/want-to-do-a-listresources-import-programatically-and-choose-which-ones-to-import/316156"]That's why I ended up adding the step of removing those items that I didn't want via sdk or sql before executing an import[/quote]

Any tips on removing items from the results of a discovery (specifically Volumes) via SDK would be most welcome.

I read the following from The OrionSDK wiki and gave up on the idea
"It is currently not possible to filter node child objects (e.g. import only specific node interfaces, volumes etc.) when using IsAutoImport=FALSE and calling ImportDiscoveryResults later. You can filter interfaces (but not volumes or other objects) when using IsAutoImport=TRUE"
but If you have a trick or if i'm missing something obvious (very likely) i think that information could be useful here.

leveraging ScheduleListResources would be a much more direct (and preferred from my perspective) approach to accomplish something like this on nodes that are already managed, but i've not seen those results listed in Orion.DiscoveredX.