How do I create an IPAM IP Node?

Hi again

Due to to the issue reported here (Custom fields not updating for used IP) I am trying to code removing an IP node and re-creating it. The remove function works but the create doesn't, I can't find an example of how this should be done but I have taken a guess based on the Python example of adding a node.

Code:

props = {
        'IPAddress': ip_address,
        }

update_main_repsonse = connect_to_solarwinds.swis.create('IPAM.IPNode', **props)

I received an error 400

400 Client Error: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. for url: https://URL-REMOVED:17778/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/Create/IPAM.IPNode
  File "C:\orionsdk-0.3.0\orionsdk\swisclient.py", line 63, in _req
    resp.raise_for_status()
  File "C:\orionsdk-0.3.0\orionsdk\swisclient.py", line 34, in create
    return self._req(

I tried checked the API to see what values need to be sent, but that doesn't seem to help as it just shows the variable types, not the required elements. I'm not having the best experience working with this API to be honest. Documentation is sparse with very few examples available - particularly for python.

http://solarwinds.github.io/OrionSDK/swagger-ui/#/CRUD/CreateIPAMIPNode

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Pyhton_Noob

Think I found the solution to this, posting as I couldn't find the information anywhere and had to get there from trial and error: The required elements are:

Request:
17778/.../IPAM.IPNode

Body:
{
"SubnetId": 500,
"IPAddress": "10.1.1.10",
"Status": 2,
"IPOrdinal": 10
}

status ID's are:

1 - used
2 - available - values must be blank
4 - reserved
8 - Transient

The IPOrdial seems to be the numerical order number that the IP would be sorted in. Not ideal as that would need to be coded for anything other than a /24.

Pyhton_Noob

For reference the above works in postman, the Python SDK wrapper will fail. In order to get this working I had use the standard python requests module.

import urllib3
import urllib.request
import requests

sw_user = "username"
sw_pass = "password"

server = "https://:17778" 

def ipam_write_request(ip_address, subnet_id, status, ip_ordial):
    query = "/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/Create/IPAM.IPNode"

    body ={
    'SubnetId': subnet_id,
    'IPAddress': ip_address,
    'Status': status,
    'IPOrdinal': ip_ordial
    }

    # Run Query and store in query_result
    # Concatonates server and query to easyily switch between instances
    query_result = requests.post(server + query, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(sw_user, sw_pass), verify=False, json=body)

    print(query_result)