Invoke-SwisVerb : Verb Orion.AlertSuppression.SuppressAlerts cannot unpackage parameter 0 of type System.String

Import-Module SwisPowerShell

$OrionServer = 'localhost'
$cred = Get-Credential

$swis = Connect-Swis -Hostname $OrionServer -Credential $cred

$server = 'my-server'
$query = "SELECT Uri FROM Orion.Nodes WHERE SysName LIKE '" + "$server" + "%'"
$entityUris = Get-SwisData $swis $query
$entityUris = $entityUris |% {[string]$_}

Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts @($entityUris)

Trying to mute alerts on an object, using the code above and always receive the following error message:

Invoke-SwisVerb : Verb Orion.AlertSuppression.SuppressAlerts cannot unpackage parameter 0 of type System.String[]
At line:13 char:1
+ Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts @($entity ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Invoke-SwisVerb], FaultException`1
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : SwisError,SwisPowerShell.InvokeSwisVerb

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  • Hi,

    It doesn't seem to matter how I pass the parameter, the following all fail:

    Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts "swis://myserver.xyz/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID=29"
    Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts @($entityUris)
    Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts (@($entityUris))
    Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts $entityUris

  • Hi,

    It doesn't seem to matter how I pass the parameter, the following all fail:

    Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts "swis://myserver.mydomain/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID=29"
    Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts $entityUris
    Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts @($entityUris)
    Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.AlertSuppression SuppressAlerts (@($entityUris))

  • Ahh I should have caught that. The verb needs 3 paramaters in the array.

    1) entity uri

    2) start time Utc

    3) end time Utc or $null .. not providing this param may be the same as providing $null with the end result of an indefinite mute

    So this should work:

    $now = (Get-Date)::UtcNow

    $2hoursFromNow = $now.AddHours(2)

    .... SuppressAlerts @($entityUris, $now, $2hoursFromNow)

  • Hi,

    Thanks for looking into this, but I am still getting the same error. See logs:

    2022-10-06 08:33:41,091 [138] ERROR SolarWinds.InformationService.Core.InformationService - SwisPowerShell (null)	 Exception for Operation: <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:u="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd">
      <s:Header>
        <a:Action s:mustUnderstand="1">http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice/InformationService/Invoke</a:Action>
        <a:MessageID>urn:uuid:8e8ad3cd-df48-458f-8c09-2d8b3405f52e</a:MessageID>
        <a:ReplyTo>
          <a:Address>http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</a:Address>
        </a:ReplyTo>
        <i18n xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
          <Culture>en-US</Culture>
        </i18n>
        <SwisSettings xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
          <AppendErrors>true</AppendErrors>
          <ApplicationTag>SwisPowerShell</ApplicationTag>
          <DataProviderTimeout>PT30S</DataProviderTimeout>
        </SwisSettings>
        <SwisProtocolVersion xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice">2</SwisProtocolVersion>
        <IsBase64EncodingAccepted xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice">true</IsBase64EncodingAccepted>
        <a:To s:mustUnderstand="1">net.tcp://localhost:17777/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Orion/ssl</a:To>
        <o:Security s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns:o="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd">
          <u:Timestamp u:Id="_0">
            <u:Created>2022-10-06T08:33:41.076Z</u:Created>
            <u:Expires>2022-10-06T08:38:41.076Z</u:Expires>
          </u:Timestamp>
          <c:SecurityContextToken u:Id="uuid-7db53a10-8fcd-4c3c-80d6-e5f35466ca7d-258" xmlns:c="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/sc">
            <c:Identifier>urn:uuid:e6de553b-1910-4cf5-9414-800e660bb437</c:Identifier>
          </c:SecurityContextToken>
          <Signature xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
            <SignedInfo>
              <CanonicalizationMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#">
              </CanonicalizationMethod>
              <SignatureMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#hmac-sha1">
              </SignatureMethod>
              <Reference URI="#_0">
                <Transforms>
                  <Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#">
                  </Transform>
                </Transforms>
                <DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1">
                </DigestMethod>
                <DigestValue>wf0b+o9bIi3gQWLHzFZ6fqzPTb0=</DigestValue>
              </Reference>
            </SignedInfo>
            <SignatureValue>MtGukuNwDDI9x+433HOIt+7w8ZM=</SignatureValue>
            <KeyInfo>
              <o:SecurityTokenReference>
                <o:Reference URI="#uuid-7db53a10-8fcd-4c3c-80d6-e5f35466ca7d-258">
                </o:Reference>
              </o:SecurityTokenReference>
            </KeyInfo>
          </Signature>
        </o:Security>
      </s:Header>
      <s:Body>
        <Invoke xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice">
          <entity>Orion.AlertSuppression</entity>
          <verb>SuppressAlerts</verb>
          <parameters xmlns:b="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Xml" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <b:XmlElement>
              <string xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">swis://myserver/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID=29</string>
            </b:XmlElement>
            <b:XmlElement>
              <dateTime xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">2022-10-06T08:33:41.0761391Z</dateTime>
            </b:XmlElement>
            <b:XmlElement>
              <dateTime xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">2022-10-06T10:33:41.0761391Z</dateTime>
            </b:XmlElement>
          </parameters>
        </Invoke>
      </s:Body>
    </s:Envelope>
    2022-10-06 08:33:41,091 [138] ERROR SolarWinds.InformationService.Core.InformationService - SwisPowerShell (null)	 Exception caught in method SolarWinds.InformationService.Core.InformationService.Invoke
    SolarWinds.InformationService.Verb.VerbExecutorException: Verb Orion.AlertSuppression.SuppressAlerts cannot unpackage parameter 0 of type System.String[] ---> System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Expecting state 'Element'.. Encountered 'Text'  with name '', namespace ''. 
       at ReadArrayOfstringFromXml(XmlReaderDelegator , XmlObjectSerializerReadContext , XmlDictionaryString , XmlDictionaryString , CollectionDataContract )
       at System.Runtime.Serialization.CollectionDataContract.ReadXmlValue(XmlReaderDelegator xmlReader, XmlObjectSerializerReadContext context)
       at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializerReadContext.InternalDeserialize(XmlReaderDelegator reader, String name, String ns, Type declaredType, DataContract& dataContract)
       at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializerReadContext.InternalDeserialize(XmlReaderDelegator xmlReader, Type declaredType, DataContract dataContract, String name, String ns)
       at System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractSerializer.InternalReadObject(XmlReaderDelegator xmlReader, Boolean verifyObjectName, DataContractResolver dataContractResolver)
       at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.ReadObjectHandleExceptions(XmlReaderDelegator reader, Boolean verifyObjectName, DataContractResolver dataContractResolver)
       at SolarWinds.InformationService.Verb.VerbExecutorContext.<>c__DisplayClass19_0.<UnpackageParameters>b__0(Int32 index)
       --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
       at SolarWinds.InformationService.Verb.VerbExecutorContext.<>c__DisplayClass19_0.<UnpackageParameters>b__0(Int32 index)
       at SolarWinds.InformationService.Verb.VerbExecutorContext.CreateParameters(Func`2 getParameterAt, Int32 parametersCount, Stream stream)
       at SolarWinds.InformationService.Verb.VerbExecutorContext.UnpackageParameters(XmlElement[] parameters, Stream stream)
       at SolarWinds.InformationService.Core.InformationService.<>c__DisplayClass18_0.<Invoke>b__0(VerbExecutorContext context)
       at SolarWinds.InformationService.Core.InformationService.Invoke[T](String entity, String verb, Action`1 setupParameters, Func`2 extractReturnValue)



  • This is an example that I used just yesterday, and it works on Platform version 2022.3.

    $NodesToMute = Get-SwisData -SwisConnection $SwisConnection -Query "SELECT Caption, Uri FROM Orion.Nodes WHERE IPAddress LIKE '10.149.%.%'"
    
    # We are in the central time zone, right now, so those are reflected in the hand-typed entries below
    $suppressFrom  = Get-Date "2022-09-17 01:00 AM" # 11 PM, Friday - Los Angeles Time
    $suppressUntil = Get-Date "2022-09-18 04:00 PM" # 5 PM, Sunday  - Los Angeles Time
    # Flip them to UTC
    $suppressFrom = $suppressFrom.ToUniversalTime()
    $suppressUntil = $suppressUntil.ToUniversalTime()
    
    Invoke-SwisVerb -SwisConnection $SwisConnection -EntityName 'Orion.AlertSuppression' -Verb 'SuppressAlerts' -Arguments $NodesToMute.Uri , $suppressFrom, $suppressUntil

  • What does your powershell code look like (start to finish) now, could you provide it? This works for me without issue...

  • Hi, 

    I am going to wait until we update our Platform/SDK Versions, and then test this again. Thanks for your help. 

  • Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name SwisPowerShell

        Directory: C:\Users\MyUsernameHere\Documents\PowerShell\Modules
    
    ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                PSEdition ExportedCommands
    ---------- -------    ---------- ----                                --------- ----------------
    Binary     3.1.0.343             SwisPowerShell                      Desk      {Connect-Swis, Get-SwisData, Get-SwisOb…

    My tests have been running on SwisPowerShell version 3.1.0.343.

  • Thanks, I think our Platform/SDK version is pretty outdated - so I'm not sure if Suppressing/Muting alerts is supported in this build. For now I can unmanage a node fine. Once we have updated I will test again and report back.