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Orion.NodesCustomProperties.CreateCustomProperty "Usages" syntax and values

Martin_Crothers over 1 year ago

Hi THWACK community,

Does anyone know the correct values and construction for the Usages argument of the CreateCustomProperty verb? I'm looking to fully understand it so that I can translate the knowledge into any language I have to use in the future.

This is similar to another old post, but I couldn't reply to it: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/the-orion-platform/f/orion-sdk/45467/what-is-syntax-for-usages-dictionary

The Schema listed in the OrionSDK github site for this verb is pending completion: http://solarwinds.github.io/OrionSDK/2020.2/schema/Orion.NodesCustomProperties.html

The default value for this field will create a Custom Property with the following:

I've tried combinations of the following (removed the opening less-than signs of the XML so that it would print in the code block)

ArrayOfKeyValueOfstringboolean xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
{
  "IsForAlerting": true,
  "IsForFiltering": true,
  "IsForGrouping": true,
  "IsForReporting": true,
  "IsForEntityDetail": true,
  "IsForAssetInventory": true
}
/ArrayOfKeyValueOfstringboolean>

ArrayOfKeyValueOfstringboolean xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
[
  {"IsForAlerting": true},
  {"IsForFiltering": true},
  {"IsForGrouping": true},
  {"IsForReporting": true},
  {"IsForEntityDetail": true},
  {"IsForAssetInventory": true}
]
/ArrayOfKeyValueOfstringboolean>

Based on the example on the SwaggerUI page: https://solarwinds.github.io/OrionSDK/swagger-ui/#/Verbs/OrionAPMApplicationCustomPropertiesCreateCustomProperty
...I tried:

ArrayOfKeyValueOfstringboolean xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
[
  {
    "Key": "IsForAlerting",
    "Value": true
  },
  {
    "Key": "IsForFiltering",
    "Value": false
  },
  {
    "Key": "IsForGrouping",
    "Value": false
  },
  {
    "Key": "IsForReporting",
    "Value": false
  },
  {
    "Key": "IsForEntityDetail",
    "Value": false
  },
  {
    "Key": "IsForAssetInventory",
    "Value": true
  }
]
/ArrayOfKeyValueOfstringboolean>

Haven't had any luck yet.

Also, if someone knows the above, do you also know what the name would be for the "Account Limitations" usage?

0 KMSigma.SWI over 1 year ago
We had a THWACKcamp 2018 episode that talked about these (at least insofar as PowerShell is concerned. There's an API for That: Introduction to the SolarWinds Orion API. Somewhere around the 18:00 minute mark, we discuss Custom Properties.

In PowerShell a Dictionary Item is a Hashtable, in other languages it might be different, but you've got the general mechanics correct:

$Usages = @{ IsForAlerting = $true IsForAssetInventory = $true IsForEntityDetail = $true IsForFiltering = $true IsForGrouping = $true IsForReporting = $true }

And JSON like this would look something like this:

{ "IsForReporting": true, "IsForGrouping": true, "IsForAssetInventory": true, "IsForEntityDetail": true, "IsForFiltering": true, "IsForAlerting": true }

If you want to do this DIRECTLY within SWQL Studio (using XML), I'd probably recommend against it. It should be able to work, but I stay away from any of the XML stuff these days. The formatting is so finicky.
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0 geekiegirl2016 over 1 year ago

Martin_Crothers said:
Also, if someone knows the above, do you also know what the name would be for the "Account Limitations" usage?

I am also looking for this information? Does anybody know anything about how to enable that property?
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