API - Adding Poller to Node in PHP

trung.ngo78

Hi,

I've been able to create a node with the API, but I want to add a poller to that node. How do I determine which Poller should be added?

Is adding the poller after the node the best way? and which poller should be added?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Also, any examples in PHP would be awesome.

Thanks

T

tdanner

We don't have any samples published in PHP and it's not a language in my toolbox. A user on this forum recently asked about running a discovery from PHP: How to Create a Discovery Profile using Orion API in PHP . Unfortunately that thread has not yet ended in success, though I think he is close.

Adding a poller to a node is not a complicated operation (POST to /SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/Create/Orion.Pollers with a body like {"PollerType":"N.Details.SNMP.Generic", "NetObject":"N:123", "NetObjectType":"N", "NetObjectID":123}. The tricky part is knowing what poller types to add since this depends on the kind of node you are adding. If you are automating the addition of a small number of distinct kinds of nodes, then you can figure out what poller types are needed by manually adding a representative of each kind of node (through the web UI) and querying Orion.Pollers to see what poller types were added.

The discovery API looks more complicated (and it is) but it does avoid the need to know what kinds of pollers to add.