This use case covers taking an atlas map, with a small number of devices, and then cloning it, and updating the node & interface ID's of the comparable devices at multiple locations. For example, consider the use case where you have 100 small remote offices, all of which have 1 router, 1 switch, and 2 APs.
In this case, first you would simply export out the template map from the atlas (in a .orionmap extension), then the below function could be called 4 times, each time replacing the source info with the info for the matching device in the new location. In this particular example I have just hardcoded the details I want to find and replace, but it it's relatively trivial to add in these details via the SDK, importing from a CSV, etc. (In the code below, I've left in the original strings, to help understand the formatting)
<# #comment: "NetObjects=Orion.Nodes: 3,Orion.Nodes: 6,Orion.NPM.Interfaces: 3|2,Orion.NPM.Interfaces: 6|54" # text: "syd-2851" #SWTargetNodeID: "Orion.NPM.Interfaces: 6|54" #SWNetObjectNID: "Orion.Nodes: 3" #SWNetObjectNID: "Orion.Nodes: 3"#>function Update-OrionMaps{ [CmdletBinding()] [Alias()] [OutputType([int])] Param ( # Param1 help description [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true, Position=0)] $MapPath, # Param2 help description [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [int] $OriginalNodeID, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [int] $OriginalInterfaceID, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [string] $OriginalCaption, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [int] $NewNodeID, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [int] $NewInterfaceID, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [string] $NewCaption ) Begin { $NodeString = "Orion.Nodes: " $Interfacestring = "Orion.NPM.Interfaces: " $SourceContent = Get-Content $MapPath } Process { #$newContent =($SourceContent).Replace("Orion.Nodes: 3","Orion.Nodes: 1") $newContent =($SourceContent).Replace($NodeString+$OriginalNodeID,$NodeString+$NewNodeID) #$newContent =($NewContent).Replace("Orion.NPM.Interfaces: 3|2","Orion.NPM.Interfaces: 1|52") $newContent =($NewContent).Replace($Interfacestring+$OriginalNodeID+"|"+$OriginalInterfaceID, $Interfacestring+$NewNodeID+"|"+$NewInterfaceID) $newContent =($NewContent).Replace($OriginalCaption,$NewCaption) } End { Set-Content -Value $newContent -Path $MapPath -Force }}$SourceFile = 'C:\Temp\Template_Map.OrionMap'$CloneFile = 'C:\temp\Clone.OrionMap'Copy-Item -Path $SourceFile -Destination $CloneFile -ForceUpdate-OrionMaps -MapPath $CloneFile -OriginalNodeID 6 -OriginalInterfaceID 54 -OriginalCaption "bas-2960" -NewNodeID 1 -NewInterfaceID 52 -NewCaption "syd-2851"Then, once all the files have been imported, the ImportMapBatch.exe located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\Network Atlas\" can be used to do a bulk import once all the files have been created.
