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Explanation for Description variable under Orion.Routing.Neighbors?

The Description variable of Orion.Routing.Neighbors is not populated for any of our hundreds of routing neighbors. When I try to update this variable I am not allowed to. How is this variable populated, and is there a way that I can write to it?

solarwinds.github.io/.../Orion.Routing.Neighbors.html

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KMSigma.SWI

Are you pulling the routing information for your devices under "List Resources"?

cshaad

Yep, all of the other information is populated, but none of the 200+ routing neighbors have any information in Description. When I try to run an update against it to add my own info, it is not allowed.

KMSigma.SWI

Correct. That particular entity is read-only and can only be updated by the Orion system itself. If it's not populating, and you aren't getting neighbor information in the web console either, you should open a support case. Something's not coming in correctly.

cshaad

Is there a definition anywhere of what information should be populated in this description? Where would you find this in the GUI? I've only seen this referenced in the API. Under Network I see this, but there is no description field.

cshaad

Bump, anyone have ideas? How can this field be used? Would be nice to be able to write to it via API instead of having a blank description field for every neighbor.

KMSigma.SWI

I shared this a little while ago. I guess I forgot to post back here.

Routing Neighbors for a Single Node - Custom Queries - The Orion Platform - THWACK (solarwinds.com)

Sorry about that.

cshaad

Not seeing where that post relates to the Description field that can be found in the API, am I missing something?

KMSigma.SWI

Sorry - got my lines crossed here - I was working two similar forum posts here.

The description field is not populated and may not in any records in this table. Description is a field that appears to be mandated by the API architects for all entity types. If the API already has a better descriptive entry, then you should use that one.

My guess (I'm not one of the architects) is that this way if a query is called like:

SELECT Uri, Description FROM <EntityName>

It'll at least not fail for whatever entity is provided.