REST API Creating Nodes

Can you post your script?

Yes of course sorry.

        // POST call/nodes

        public HttpResponseMessage Post([FromBody]NodeInfo info)

        {

            CustomNodeInfo cnInfo = new CustomNodeInfo();

            #region Hard Coded Values for SaaS

            //Hard coding these for now as this is for just the SaaS Poller currently

            info.EngineID = 4;

            cnInfo.CRM_Account = "AN_CUST1099";

            cnInfo.ACCPAC_SiteID = "MST-SaaS";

            cnInfo.AssetType = "Server";

            ModelState.Remove("value.EngineID");

            //End Hard Coded

            #endregion

            info.EntityType = "Orion.Nodes";

            info.DynamicIP = false;

            info.Status = 1;

            info.UnManaged = false;

            info.Allow64BitCounters = false;

            if (ModelState.IsValid)

            {

                string query = "{\"query\":\"SELECT PropertyValue FROM Orion.EngineProperties WHERE EngineID=@e AND PropertyName='Orion.Standard.Polling'\",\"parameters\":{\"e\":"+info.EngineID+"}}";

                JObject pollingRate = JObject.Parse(SWJsonCall.Post("Json/Query", query));

                int curRate = (Int32)pollingRate["results"][0]["PropertyValue"];

                if (curRate < 85)

                {

                    //Create Node First

                    string createNode = SWJsonCall.Post("Json/Create/Orion.Nodes", JsonConvert.SerializeObject(info));

                    //Make the returned swis url nice

                    createNode = createNode.Replace("\\","").Replace("\"","");

                    string updateProps = SWJsonCall.Post("Json/" + createNode + "/CustomProperties", JsonConvert.SerializeObject(cnInfo));

                    return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.Created);

                }

                else

                {

                    return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, "Polling rate at dangerous level " + curRate + "%. Please consult Admins, node NOT added.");

                }

            }

            else

            {

                var message = string.Join(" | ", ModelState.Values.SelectMany(v => v.Errors).Select(e => e.ErrorMessage));

                var execption = string.Join(" | ", ModelState.Values.SelectMany(v => v.Errors).Select(e => e.Exception));

                return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, "Error - " + message + " : " + execption);

            }

        }

You also need to add pollers to your new node. See this script for an example: orionsdk-python/add_node.py at master · solarwinds/orionsdk-python · GitHub  . ​

Note that the set of pollers you need depends on the type of node (vendor) you are adding.

That would do it then thank you sir ... do you have a list of pollers ?

NVM i found it Poller Types · solarwinds/OrionSDK Wiki · GitHub  thanks again !

Is there a way for it to automatically pick up Volume Utilization and Name resolution?

And by Name i mean Caption

Not using this approach.

If you switch to using the discovery API, you can add a node with all of the interfaces and volumes including the appropriate pollers for whatever device type it is.

See this post for details: Triggering discovery of SNMPV2 device through JSON API

Well that makes more sense then however the API is throwing an error stating :

Message\":\"Verb Orion.Discovery.StartDiscovery requires 1 parameters not 0

Here is the post data values changed to security purposes ...

"{\"Name\":\"Discovery API Test\",\"EngineID\":4,\"JobTimeoutSeconds\":3600,\"SearchTimeoutMiliseconds\":2000,\"SnmpTimeoutMiliseconds\":3000,\"SnmpRetries\":1,\"RepeatIntervalMiliseconds\":1800,\"SnmpPort\":161,\"HopCount\":0,\"PerferredSnmpVersion\":\"SNMPv2\",\"DisableIcmp\":false,\"AllowDuplicateNodes\":false,\"IsAutoImport\":true,\"IsHidden\":true,\"PluginConfigurations\":\"{PluginConfigurationItem: <PluginItems xmlns=\\\"http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/SolarWinds.Orion.Core.Models.Discovery\\\"><knownTypes><ArrayOfstring xmlns=\\\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays\\\" xmlns:i=\\\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\\\"><string>SolarWinds.Orion.Core.Models.Discovery.CoreDiscoveryPluginConfiguration,SolarWinds.Orion.Core.Models</string></ArrayOfstring></knownTypes><pluginItem><ArrayOfDiscoveryPluginConfigurationBase xmlns:i=\\\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\\\"><DiscoveryPluginConfigurationBase i:type=\\\"d2p1:CoreDiscoveryPluginConfiguration\\\" xmlns:d2p1=\\\"http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2008/Orion\\\"><d2p1:AddressRange/><d2p1:AgentsAddresses xmlns:d3p1=\\\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays\\\"/><d2p1:BulkList xmlns:d3p1=\\\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays\\\"><d3p1:string>127.0.0.1</d3p1:string></d2p1:BulkList><d2p1:Credentials><d2p1:credentials><knownTypes><ArrayOfstring xmlns=\\\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays\\\"><string>SolarWinds.Orion.Core.Models.Credentials.SnmpCredentialsV2,SolarWinds.Orion.Core.Models</string></ArrayOfstring></knownTypes><pluginItem><d2p1:ArrayOfCredential><d2p1:Credential i:type=\\\"d2p1:SnmpCredentialsV2\\\"><d2p1:Description i:nil=\\\"true\\\"/><d2p1:ID i:nil=\\\"true\\\"/><d2p1:IsBroken>false</d2p1:IsBroken><d2p1:Name>mud</d2p1:Name><d2p1:Owner i:nil=\\\"true\\\"/><d2p1:Community>ComString</d2p1:Community></d2p1:Credential></d2p1:ArrayOfCredential></pluginItem></d2p1:credentials></d2p1:Credentials><d2p1:DiscoverAgentNodes>false</d2p1:DiscoverAgentNodes><d2p1:SharedCredentials xmlns:d3p1=\\\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays\\\"/><d2p1:SubnetList/><d2p1:WmiRetries>1</d2p1:WmiRetries><d2p1:WmiRetryInterval>PT10S</d2p1:WmiRetryInterval></DiscoveryPluginConfigurationBase></ArrayOfDiscoveryPluginConfigurationBase></pluginItem></PluginItems>}\"}"

I am not sure how it can't see the param as its passed properly below here same way i was doing it with all the other post methods and the above json is validating...

        public HttpResponseMessage Post([FromBody]NodeInfo info)

        {

            DiscoveryInfo dis = new DiscoveryInfo();

            dis.Name = "Discovery API Test";

            dis.EngineID = 4;

            dis.JobTimeoutSeconds = 3600;

            dis.SearchTimeoutMiliseconds = 2000;

            dis.SnmpTimeoutMiliseconds = 3000;

            dis.SnmpRetries = 1;

            dis.RepeatIntervalMiliseconds = 1800;

            dis.SnmpPort = 161;

            dis.HopCount = 0;

            dis.PerferredSnmpVersion = "SNMPv2";

            dis.DisableIcmp = false;

            dis.AllowDuplicateNodes = false;

            dis.IsAutoImport = true;

            dis.IsHidden = true;

            dis.PluginConfigurations = "{PluginConfigurationItem: " + DiscoveryProfiles.SNMPv2(info.Community, info.IPAddress) + "}";

            string createDiscovery = SWJsonCall.Post("Json/Invoke/Orion.Discovery/StartDiscovery", JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dis));

            return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.Created);

        }

Post data for an "Invoke" call should always be a json array. StartDiscovery expects one parameter, so it should be an array of one item.

So i did that and using the example you gave i checked and its valid json but still having issues with it.