Am I Smoking Crack? Orionsdk-python IPAM.Subnet Polling Engine for automatic scanning

Nux

Am I Smoking Crack?  -- it's okay if you say Yes,.. 

I am at my wits end, I'm trying to automatic some internal business workflows;

Using Orionsdk-python, I am creating subnets.  While creating these subnets I notice in IPAM that the 'Automatic Scanning' 'Polling Engine' is not set.

Example:

My python 'meat' to create this subnets are as follows;

######## Python ###########

props = {

                        'Address': device_route.Network,

                        'CIDR': device_route.Mask,

                        'VLAN': Vlan_id,

                        'Location':CountyName + "." + CountyNumber,

                        'ParentId': parent_id,

                        'ScanInterval': 240,

                        'EngineId':1,

                        'DisableNeighborScanning':True

                    }

  #get the credentials

  mycreds = tsLocalTools.credentials

  #Connect to SolarWinds and get ready to create subnets

  swis = orionsdk.SwisClient(mycreds.credentials.swServer, mycreds.credentials.swUsername,mycreds.credentials.swPassword)

#create subnet

sw_results = swis.create('IPAM.Subnet',**props)

print(sw_results)

############ End Python ################

As you can see in the picture, the subnet is created,...  but the Polling Engine is left blank.. for automatic subnet scanning

So any subnet that I create will not Automatically be scanned,..  

How can I specify what polling engine to use??   Any ideas would greatly be welcomed!  Thank you ahead of time,  and thank you for at least reading this.

Have a great one,..

* IPAM V4.7

Nux

I have not figured out why the engineId field is not updated when using create API on IPAM,  I had to use a work around;  I created a trigger on the Database for table IPAM_Group.  I'm sure this is not supported by solarwinds support.  Use at your own risk. etc.. so forth and so on.

Microsoft SQL Script to create a Trigger.  My environment only has 1 Engine.  That EngineId in my environment is 1.  When using the API Create IPAM.Subnet to insert a subnet, the newly inserted record will have EngineId Field as NULL. In my where clause I am looking for that, along with a GroupType of 8,  which appears to be for subnets.  so my Trigger is being called everytime a new record is inserted.  There's probably a better way of doing this,  I am probably not using the API correctly.. None the less, I needed to figure something out. 

/*Script start */

/* After Insert Trigger on SolarWinds dbo.IPAM.group,

update EngineId to int 1; where engineid is null and GroupType = 8

*/

USE [SolarWindsOrion]

GO

IF OBJECT_ID('TRG_Insert_IPAM_GROUP_EngineID') IS  NOT NULL

DROP TRIGGER TRG_Insert_IPAM_GROUP_EngineID

GO

CREATE TRIGGER TRG_Insert_IPAM_GROUP_EngineID ON [dbo].[IPAM_Group]

AFTER INSERT AS

BEGIN

UPDATE [dbo].[IPAM_Group]

   SET [EngineId] = 1

   WHERE [EngineId] is Null AND GroupType = 8

END

GO

/* script end */