Verb Orion.AlertConfigurations.Export not working

Question

This script was working and just stopped working with 2019.4.

Any ideas dtanner ?

I saw a similar posting (https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Discussions/ClearAlert-Verb-in-Orion-AlertActive-Entity/td-p/340633) but that did not resolve it.

The problem verb is: Orion.AlertConfigurations Export. The $AlertID worked fine previously, but no longer works.

The error I'm getting is:

Invoke-SwisVerb : Verb Orion.AlertConfigurations.Export cannot unpackage parameter 0 of type System.Int32
At line:18 char:32
+ ... dAlertsrc=Invoke-SwisVerb $swissrc Orion.AlertConfigurations Export ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Invoke-SwisVerb], FaultException`1
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : SwisError,SwisPowerShell.InvokeSwisVerb

This is the code:
Add-PSSnapin swissnapin

$swissrc=Connect-Swis -Hostname x.x.x.x -u "cscoengineer" -p "xxxx"
$swisdst = Connect-Swis -Hostname x.x.x.x -u "cscoengineer" -p "xxxx"

$AlertIDssrc=Get-SwisData -SwisConnection $swissrc -Query "select Name, AlertID from Orion.AlertConfigurations where enabled=1"

foreach ($AlertID in $AlertIDsSRC) {
        $AlertIDDST = Get-SwisData -SwisConnection $swisdst -Query "select Name from Orion.AlertConfigurations where name='$($AlertID.Name)'"
        #Write-Output "SRC:$($AlertID.Name)        DST:$($AlertIDDST.Name)    XXX:$AlertIDDST"
        if ($AlertIDDst -eq $null) {
           Write-Output "Alert not in DST. Migrating Alert:$($AlertID.Name)"
           $ExportedAlertsrc=Invoke-SwisVerb $swissrc Orion.AlertConfigurations Export $AlertID
           #Invoke-SwisVerb $swisdst Orion.AlertConfigurations Import $ExportedAlertSRC
           }
           else
           {Write-Output "Alert in DST. Skipping: $($AlertID.Name)" }
}

cscoengineer · Accepted Answer

After reading the docs, I got it to work

Add-PSSnapin swissnapin

$swissrc=Connect-Swis -Hostname 192.168.25.30 -u "cscoengineer" -p "xxx"
$swisdst = Connect-Swis -Hostname 192.168.25.30 -u "cscoengineer" -p "xxx"

$AlertIDssrc=Get-SwisData -SwisConnection $swissrc -Query "select top 1 Name, AlertID from Orion.AlertConfigurations where enabled=1"

foreach ($AlertID in $AlertIDsSRC) {
$AlertIDDST = Get-SwisData -SwisConnection $swisdst -Query "select Name from Orion.AlertConfigurations where name='$($AlertID.Name)'"
#Write-Output "SRC:$($AlertID.Name) DST:$($AlertIDDST.Name) XXX:$AlertIDDST"
if ($AlertIDDst -eq $null) {
Write-Output "Alert not in DST. Migrating Alert:$($AlertID.Name)"
$ExportedAlertsrc=Invoke-SwisVerb $swissrc Orion.AlertConfigurations Export $AlertID.Alertid
Set-Content ExportedXML.xml $ExportedAlertSRC.InnerText
$AlertXML = Get-Content ExportedXML.xml -Raw
Invoke-SwisVerb $swisdst Orion.AlertConfigurations Import @($AlertXML)
}
else
{Write-Output "Alert in DST. Skipping: $($AlertID.Name)"}
}