Assigning Custom Properties During Node Creation

highflyer

Is it possible to assign custom properties during node creation? We have a strange case where the admin account we use to create the node has an account limitation based on a custom property, which causes the created node to be inaccessible after creation. I'd like to be able to do something like below but it looks like you can only pass properties of the Node class as opposed to the linked ones?

props = {
'IPAddress': ip_address,
'EngineID': 1,
'ObjectSubType': 'SNMP',
'SNMPVersion': 2,
'Community': community,

'DNS': '',
'SysName': ''

'CustomProperties.Property': 'value'
}

results = swis.create('Orion.Nodes', **props)

antonis.athanasiou

I don't think it's possible to pass anything else than the main properties in any entity during creation, Orion.Nodes included in this case.. This is because anything else created/updated based on a node, it requires a URI to work with which includes NodeID within. That NodeID doesn't exist when using swis.create on the Orion.Nodes entity, hence it is failing.

Under normal use case, using the Set-SwisObject would follow your workflow post node's creation, why not set the account under different limitation (or create a new one just for this purpose) and set the required custom property to the value that restricts the user to access it after the node's creation? Not ideal but may work. 

Assuming you're using some sort of logic on the account limitation (user restricted to nodes with custom property X set to Y) you could also experiment by using negative logic (user restricted to nodes with custom property X NOT set to Y), which would lift your limitation when the node is created, but of course it requires some further work to invert the logic on existing nodes..