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How do you find the parameters for the verb parameters?

Hello, I've been diving into Orion SDK recently, but I'm having issues finding out how you find the parameters to enter into the dictionaries (I'm using Python) when providing verb parameters.

For example in https://github.com/solarwinds/orionsdk-python/blob/master/samples/discover_one_node.py

where would you find what to put in the "corePluginContext" parameter in the Orion.Discovery, CreateCorePluginConfiguration verb? Or the "discoveryProfile" parameter in the Orion.Discovery, StartDiscovery verb?

Where do you look to find these?

Thank you.

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KMSigma.SWI

Did you look at the contents of the XmlTemplate field? That's what I use to figure out what to use when I'm playing with a completely new verb. (And sorry, but I know virtually nothing about Python.)

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jm_sysadmin

At the top of the script they define the variables you need to figure out to discover 1 IP with SNMP. You shouldn't have to alter much else. I imagine you can figure out the npm server, IP, user and password. The others you need to figure the ID that Orion has assigned them when they were added.

def main():
	npm_server = 'localhost'
	username = 'admin'
	password = ''
	target_node_ip = '1.2.3.4'
	snmpv3_credential_id = 3
	orion_engine_id = 1

If you don't know the credential and the engine take a look at these two queries that might help. Hopefully it looks like what you see in the wizard so that you can find the ID number you need.

Credentials

SELECT ID, Name, Description, CredentialType, CredentialOwner FROM Orion.Credential

Engines

SELECT EngineID, ServerName, IP, ServerType FROM Orion.Engines

awesomeaustin123

Hi, thanks for your answer, those queries are very helpful, but this isn't the only script where I've run into this issue, and I hope not to have to ask for every script I come across about these parameters. Is there really no other way to discover what these dictionary parameters are?

KMSigma.SWI

First and foremost, I use SWQL Studio to get these things because it shows in a way that's pleasing to the eye and organized in such a way you can understand the hierarchy. But if you don't want to go that route, you can always query toe API itself for the verbs and arguments.

List of Verbs:

SELECT [Verbs].EntityName
     , [Verbs].Name
     , [Verbs].Summary
FROM Metadata.Verb AS [Verbs]
WHERE [Verbs].IsObsolete = 'FALSE'
  AND [Verbs].IsInternal = 'FALSE'
  AND [Verbs].CanInvoke = 'TRUE'
ORDER BY [Verbs].EntityName
       , [Verbs].Name

For the arguments you can query for:

SELECT [VerbArgs].EntityName
     , [VerbArgs].VerbName
     , [VerbArgs].Position
     , [VerbArgs].Name
     , [VerbArgs].Type
     , [VerbArgs].XmlTemplate
     , [VerbArgs].XmlSchemas
     , [VerbArgs].IsOptional
FROM Metadata.VerbArgument AS [VerbArgs]
WHERE [VerbArgs].Verb.IsObsolete = 'FALSE'
     AND [VerbArgs].Verb.IsInternal = 'FALSE'
     AND [VerbArgs].Verb.CanInvoke = 'TRUE'
ORDER BY [VerbArgs].EntityName, [VerbArgs].VerbName

Some of the 'types' shown for the argument list are self-explanatory, but some of the other ones require a little digging around.

awesomeaustin123

Sorry if I was unclear, but the types that require more digging around is what I'm referring to, I just didn't know what the term for it was. For example, the data type that the CreateCorePluginConfiguration verb in Orion.Discovery is asking for is "SolarWinds.Data.Providers.Orion.Verbs.Discovery+CorePluginConfigurationContext".

In Python this CorePluginConfigurationContext would be given in the form of a dictionary from what I've seen on other examples, but I'm not sure what to put into that dictionary other than what I see online and the type name is not very specific, where would I get the options that are available to me?

Thank you.