How to Create a Discovery Profile using Orion API in PHP

jordan.swan

Hi Everyone,

I've been trying to get a PHP page I've been writing to start a Discovery Profile, but it seems to be getting hung up on getting the XML Context into JSON format so that I can send it it the REST API via cURL.

Has anyone been able to do this before, and if not, does anyone have any ideas?

I am relatively new to PHP and curl, so I'm sure I've missed some obvious things.

I've set the following XML equal to the variable $core_plugin which I later try to pass into an Invoke call.

<CorePluginConfigurationContext xmlns='http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2012/Orion/Core' xmlns:i='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'>        <BulkList>                <IpAddress>                        <Address>                        </Address>                </IpAddress>        </BulkList>        <Credentials>                <SharedCredentialInfo>                        <CredentialID>1</CredentialID>                        <Order>1</Order>                </SharedCredentialInfo>        </Credentials>        <WmiRetriesCount>0</WmiRetriesCount>        <WmiRetryIntervalMiliseconds>1000</WmiRetryIntervalMiliseconds></CorePluginConfigurationContext>

which I then do this is PHP

// Construct the Core Plugin XML Document, then Have Solarwinds Build the Plugin
$info = simplexml_load_string($core_plugin);
$info->BulkList->IpAddress->Address = "10.10.10.10";
$updated_core_plugin = $info->asXML();
$core_plugin_url = "">solarwindsServer.com:17778/.../CreateCorePluginConfiguration";
$core_plugin_data = array('context' => "$updated_core_plugin");
$json_core_plugin = json_encode($core_plugin_data);
$finished_core_plugin = CallAPI($core_plugin_url, $json_core_plugin);

function CallAPI($url, $data = false) {
   $ch = curl_init();


    // Authentication:
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password");
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
                                        'Content-type: application/json',
                                        'Content-length: ' . strlen($data)
                                      ));


  $result = curl_exec($ch);
  $response = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
  $error = curl_error($ch);
  $info = curl_getinfo($ch);


  curl_close($ch);


    if ($result == false) {
  echo "Response: " . $response . "
";
  echo "Error: " . $error . "
";
  echo "Info: " . print_r($info);
  die();
  }


  return $result;
}

If you need anything else from me, please let me know.

Just FYI, the curl section was from another user on Thwack.

Thanks,

Jordan

tdanner

I don't know much about PHP (except for Austin's Pint House Pizza), but I think the problem is this line:

$core_plugin_data = array('context' => "$updated_core_plugin");

For sending to an Invoke call, we need a JSON array, not a JSON object. Try this instead:

$core_plugin_data = array($updated_core_plugin);