Invoking Orion/APM/Admin/Edit/Edit.asmx/CreateComponents

equalswql

Hello Solarwinds Community,

I'm back at it again attempting some crazy automation (per usual). I know, I know, the current API set doesn't support a lot of CRUD operations or Verbs to invoke for APM/SAM at the moment.

I'm wondering if I was better off posting the following thread in the Orion SDK space: SAM Threshold Automation: Mapping ThresholdName to ComponentTypes

and while it isn't directly related to this issue, it is related to the case I'm making: I'm trying to do things that aren't currently supported, but that isn't stopping me...

This time, I'm attempting to automate the creation of components and am having a hard time decoding exactly what is going on with the following endpoint: 'Orion/APM/Admin/Edit/Edit.asmx/CreateComponents'

While editing an application template, this URL is invoked when a new component is added. The json body appears as: {"definitionIds":[5],"isTemplate":false,"nextNewComponentId":-1} for an HTTP component.

I'm able to authenticate and get a response, however @tdanner (or anyone else) - before I continue on this path, is there any way of manipulating this call to add a component template to an existing application template? My hunch is that this is simply generating an output that is fed to the 'Orion/APM/Admin/Edit/Edit.asmx/SaveApplicationTemplate' endpoint, but I'm hoping there is something that I'm missing. Since there doesn't seem to be any reference to the application template that is being modified (outside of the referrer header in the request) I'm not sure how to proceed. Any insights would be appreciated.

Thank you,

equalswql

tdanner

Hi there. Those website .asmx services are only intended to power the UI. There's no documentation for them and no promise that they will not change from release to release. You are of course free to figure them out and use them if you choose. And I can sympathize when, as in this case, there is no proper API for doing an essential task like this.

I don't know about this one in particular, but some of these .asmx services work as a family of calls that keep intermediate state in the web server session. The services that are part of the Add Node and Discovery workflows definitely do this.

If you are going to work out how the UI does some task like adding a component to an existing template, I recommend you use Chrome (or other browser) developer tools to watch all of the traffic while you perform the task in question manually in the UI.