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How to find VolumeIndex and InterfaceIndex

nhartman over 8 years ago

Working on automating the addition of nodes so that when we build a server it adds itself properly to Solarwinds. The only piece I have not been able to do is determine the VolumeIndex and InterfaceIndex parameters. Has anyone figured out a way to dynamically get that data using the SDK with powershell and WMI?

I have tried using get-wmiobject and reading data in that way, which helps with the Caption and Description. However I can't seem to figure out the index variable.

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mrxinu over 8 years ago in reply to nhartman +2 verified

You're very welcome. It's Orion.DiscoveredVolumes, past tense. Not Orion.DiscoverVolumes. It's where you're going to find volumes that have already been discovered by the Network Sonar discovery. That…

0 mrxinu over 8 years ago

Hi nhartman! Getting the interface information is actually much easier than that. The SDK provides DiscoverInterfacesOnNode and AddInterfacesOnNode verbs that you can run that provide all the details. Check out the script below:
OrionSDK/NPM.DiscoverAndAddInterfacesOnNode.ps1 at master · solarwinds/OrionSDK · GitHub
Volumes are more complicated only because there isn't a comparable set of verbs for that. In that case you either need to leverage the discoveries (the results of the discovered volumes show up in Orion.DiscoveredVolumes) or go and get the volume index, type, size, used yourself so you can create the volume with a property bag.
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0 nhartman over 8 years ago in reply to mrxinu

Thanks for the response! Do you have any code examples of the use of Orion.DiscoverVolumes? Or SDK docs.
With the DiscoverInterfacesOnNode I input a nodeid of a Windows server but get back "InvalidNode". However if I put the ID of a switch in it works. Am I missing a step for the discovery to work?
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0 mrxinu over 8 years ago in reply to nhartman

You're very welcome.
It's Orion.DiscoveredVolumes, past tense. Not Orion.DiscoverVolumes. It's where you're going to find volumes that have already been discovered by the Network Sonar discovery. That's the only way to add volumes as far as I know unless you have some way of getting the volume index, its size, type, amount consumed, etc. so you can add the volume with New-SwisObject. I've been able to do it via SNMP but that was kind of a pain.
If you need interfaces *and* volumes you're probably better off running a scheduled discovery and then harvesting from the Orion.Discovered* tables.
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