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Is it possible to block IP address using API (https://oriondemo.solarwinds.com)

Hello!

I'd like to implement a plugin that, for now, would only allow to block an IP address in SolarWinds IPAM. Since installation process of IPAM is rather demanding, I'd like to try it first on the test instance:

https://oriondemo.solarwinds.com/Orion/SummaryView.aspx?ViewID=1

I know that I can log in using orion/guest and I've found the IPAM section with the option to blacklist an IP address. However, I didn't have any luck trying to connect with that test instance using the API:

GitHub - solarwinds/orionsdk-python: Python client for interacting with the SolarWinds Orion API

Here are my questions:

* is it possible to connect to the test instance using the API?

* if so, is it possible to use the API to blacklist an IP address?

I would appreciate a code sample of how to connect from Python to Orion API and perform the blacklist action, if possible

Best regards,

Fred

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mesverrum

Oriondemo is pretty restricted regarding changes, allowing random users from the public internet to hit the api and make changes to the live system would pretty much guarantee that it would be a wreck every time you tried to use it.

Installing your own copy of the IPAM eval is free for 30 days and could really be done on pretty much any Windows machine in like 10 minutes.

mesverrum

Also, this is the documentation for all the things you can do in IPAM via the API. Basically anything you would be able to do in the GUI can be done by script.

IPAM 4.7 API · solarwinds/OrionSDK Wiki · GitHub

fredcolon

Thanks for the link mesverrum, that looks like the one I've been looking for. However, my primary OS is Linux, and the only Windows machine I have access to at the moment uses Windows 10 Home, while IPAM only seems to run on Professional. Is there a way to get a demo instance or install IPAM on a Home edition?

mesverrum

I've honestly never tried, is this not for a work environment where you can just spin up a windows vm using eval licenses? I mean technically you could even do that from your linux workstation with something like KVM but I would assume that if this is for work then they already have infrastructure in place to make that all relatively easy.