Anyone used Orion.Nodes.ImportSelectedListResourcesResult successfully?

SilentMuse

I'm trying to use the API to script a List Resources, but want to be able to filter the results prior to Importing the results.   I can use ImportListResourcesResult to simply import the whole result, but that gets me a tonne of elements I'm not interested in.   

ImportSelectedListResourcesResult looks like what I want.  I can Get the list of resources that the job found, but I can't convince ImportSelectedListResourcesResult to import resource from the list.  I've tried various formatting of the resources I"m interested in, I've even blanket taken the list that was pumped out by the Get and imported it wholesale into the verb, to no avail.  At least when I do that, it doesn't fail.  It simply doesn't import anything.  

Anyone have any luck, or suggest an alternate method?  The one thing I **don't** want to resort to if I can help it is importing everything and then going back and removing the things I don't want.  That creates wayyyy to much churn given that I'm dealing with 17,000 nodes on my biggest instance....

Thanks,

Paul

lorenrichardson

My solution (using PowerShell) was to retrieve the resource results via GetListResourcesResult and run it through a custom transform script that contains an exception list of items I don't want to monitor (ie Windows Scheduled Tasks, certain ports, etc) by setting their IsSelected value to false.  Anything not on my exception list has the IsSelected value set to true. 

example of my override/exceptions.  Items listed here have their IsSelected value set to false.
$overridePatterns = @(

    @{ DisplayName = "Windows Scheduled Tasks";  IsSelected = $false },

    @{ DisplayName = "ICMP \(Ping\) - Fastest";  IsSelected = $false } <## Status & Response Time values are radio buttons so only one value can be set to true.  I want "Status & Response Time Agent" in my environment so I have to force ICMP to false.##>

)

my transform script:

[CmdletBinding()]
    param (
        [ref]$items,
        [array]$patterns
    )

    foreach ($item in $items.Value) {
        $matched = $false;
        foreach ($pattern in $patterns) {
            if ($item.DisplayName -match $pattern.DisplayName) {
                $item.IsSelected = $pattern.IsSelected
                $matched = $true;
                break
            }
        }

        if (-not $matched) {

            $item.IsSelected = $true;
        }

        if ($item.Children) {

            Update-ListResourcesResults -items ([ref] $item.Children) -patterns $patterns

        }        
    }   

The modified results are then passed back to ImportSelectedListResourcesResult.

$body = @"

    {

        "jobId": "$jobId",

        "nodeId": "$nodeId",

        "resources": [$modifiedResourcesResults]

}

From my experience, you have to send the entire result set back or it doesn't work.  Hope that helps.