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modifying custom properties using swisinvoke.exe?

Could anyone suggest a code snippet for modifying custom properties using the command line swisinvoke.exe?

I'd like to try launching this as an external program from a SNMP/Syslog Trap rule action and pass the Node ID, Custom Property Name and Custom Property Value as arguments.

If this doesn't sound feasible, could anyone offer a script to do this by some other method?

Thanks in advance.

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tom.rybka

You can use a generic Update operation for changing a value of a specific node's custom property. There is a sample PowerShell script in the SDK showing its use for setting custom properties. See the most important fragment from the sample below:

$hostname = "localhost"

# NodeID of a node which custom properties you want to change

$nodeId=1

# prepare a custom property value

$customProps = @{ Comments="Custom comment"; }

# build the node URI

$uri = "swis://$hostname/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID=$nodeId/CustomProperties";

# set the custom property

Set-SwisObject $swis -Uri $uri -Properties $customProps

adatole

Any thoughts on how this would be done in Perl?

tdanner

The SOAP equivalent to Set-SwisObject is Update. So the perl call would look like this:

$swis->Update('swis://localhost/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID=1/CustomProperties', {'Comments'=>'Custom comment'});

adatole

Interestingly enough, I hacked at it and got it working, but my code looks like this:

$swis->Update('swis://TheOrionServerGoesHere/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID=NodeIDGoesHere', {'MyCustomProperty'=>'NewValueGoesHere'});

I tried it with the addition of "/CustomProperties" and that worked also. SO:

$swis->Update('swis://TheOrionServerGoesHere/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID=NodeIDGoesHere/CustomProperties', {'MyCustomProperty'=>'NewValueGoesHere'});

...and for future generations, if you are using variables you have to concatenate them thusly:

$orionserver = "thewatchmen";

$nodeid = 3;

$PropToChange = "ManagersDogsName";

$NewValue = "Fido";
$swis->Update('swis://'.$orionserver.'/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID='.$nodeid, {$PropToChange=>$NewValue});

(or with the CustomProperties)

$swis->Update('swis://'.$orionserver.'/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID='.$nodeid.'/CustomProperties/', {$PropToChange=>$NewValue});

But thanks a ton!

- Leon