IPAM Create Groups via API / SWQL / SQL

I bet everyone is so quiet because there IS a way, right?

Hi Greg,

It is possible, first you'll need to get the Orion SDK PowerShell working - https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK/wiki/PowerShell 
Then you'll need to familiarise yourself with:

New-SwisObject $swis -EntityType 'IPAM.Subnet'

 
Details can be found here - http://solarwinds.github.io/OrionSDK/2019.2/schema/IPAM.Subnet.html 

But for the impatient, I found this minimal code worked 

$new_subnet = @{ Address = "192.168.1.0"; 
                  CIDR = "24"; 
                  FriendlyName = "Home" ; 
                  ParentID = [ParentID]; 
                  Comments = "No place like Thwack"; }
                
New-SwisObject -SwisConnection <connection> -EntityType IPAM.Subnet -Properties $new_subnet

Compare this to your own UI and you'll work out who is the parent of which child pretty quickly.

I used this method to extract every subnet from an aging IPAM and create the same set-up on a new IPAM server, all from the API, with SWQL and PowerShell. 

I hope it helps!
Rich

Hi, Rich. I'm missing how this is creating a group.

This may be a separate question, but I have a similar situation in NPM. I have a list of 100 devices that need to be in a group or custom property added. There is nothing common from them to match on so I need to use their individual names. Group configuration nor custom property editor allows SWQL queries in the web UI, as far as I can tell.

Thanks.

Steve

Steve,

These are IPAM Groups which are in reality subnets, that need to be defined in the system before they get polled for IP usage. Manually this takes a few minutes per subnet, so using SWIS is very handy for when there's more than a few to do 

Or you second comment, that's not an enviable task you have there.
But if the information is stored somewhere, say like in a spreadsheet, then you can use a script to parse them into Orion via SWIS. CSV to PowerShell is pretty easy, then parse that into Custom Properties you want.
Are the custom properties pre-existing or do they need to be create with the import?

Rich

The custom property (just one) already exists. I just need to apply it to each node. I've devised a SQL query to do the work, but a little hesitant to run that in a production environment. So then I thought, maybe I can use a group, but then run into the same issue with the group.

I did find a CSV import script in another post. I may give that a try.

Thanks for your quick response!