Orion.APM: can you update application status via SDK?

carpecervisi

This may be a really stupid question, but since I've been banging my head against the wall for a few weeks, I thought I'd ask.

Can you update an application's status via the SDK's APIs?

Can you update a component's status via the SDK's APIs?

What I'm seeing in my latest failure is this:

# curl -k -u Admin: -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"Status":"0"}' https://<my ip>:<my port>/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/swis://<my host>/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID=37/Applications/ApplicationID=50/Components/ComponentID=1045

{"Message":"Operation not supported on Orion.APM.Component","ErrorCode":20,...........}

I don't know if it's a limitation in the SDK or my own incompetence. 

The use case here is a locally running Linux script containing sensitive PHI/PII data that cannot be loaded into a script on the SW server.  Based on the outcome of the script, I want to push an application/component status update to the SW server.

We currently have a custom SAM Linux log parser doing this, but for some of our other systems (VMS-based), the preference would be to push the status updates.

Thanks!

Diner

Hello,

surely it's not your incompetence :-) The update operation on Orion.APM.Component is currently unsupported. This is not limitation of Orion SDK, but rather of the SAM product implementation, so raising the customer feature request via SAM support ticket should be the first thing you could do for having the requested functionality supported. Meanwhile you may do the direct SQL updates, but nobody will guarantee if it will behave the way you intend.

If you're interested which of the CRUD operations are supported on entities of interest, you may query "SELECT FullName,CanCreate, CanRead, CanUpdate, CanDelete FROM Metadata.Entity" or if you have latest SWQL studio, just point to the entity and it will give you those information for given entity. Or potentialy inspect the list of available verbs (SELECT Name, EntityName FROM Metadata.Verb). Those are typically the more complex methods you may use to manage the Orion Platform.

Regards,

Honza