Exception adding Orion.Container with dynamic query via Python

The python client uses the json endpoint for SWIS, so verb arguments need to be encoded as json. The python SwisClient wrapper takes care of this for you, so you can just pass regular python lists and dicts. No ugly XML.

I just put a sample of creating a group from python on GitHub: https://github.com/solarwinds/orionsdk-python/blob/master/samples/groups.py

Thanks for that sample! I'm running into an interesting problem with it though. I kept everything the same except the following

results = swis.invoke(rest of code)

and at the end:

print(results)

When I run this script against my 12.0 instance of Solarwinds it works perfectly and returns back the new containerID which I need to progress with the rest of the script I would like to write. I can then view the group in the GUI and I see the database entry.

When I run this script against my 12.0.1 instance of Solarwinds it acts like it works, even returning back a new containerID, but it doesn't actually put anything in the database, therefore it's not in the GUI either. The container ID continues to iterate: for example ID 151 is the latest ContainerID in the database. if I run the script, it returns a containerID of 152, even though the group isn't actually created. If I then create a group through the GUI, that container ID is 153.

I get no exceptions or errors. There is nothing in the information service logs that I see.

If I remove the changes I made, it still behaves this way, I just don't see the return of the containerID, but the ID continues to iterate without "doing" anything.

Any thoughts?

hmm... just tried groups.py sample against my instance of NPM 12.0.1 and it works just fine. Maybe some other changes you made(e.g. can you redownload the sample?)? Or difference between versions? I used Python 2.7.12, Requests 2.11.1 and latest swisclient module from orionsdk-python/swisclient.py at master · solarwinds/orionsdk-python · GitHub

Could you please show the script you are using?

The problem may be in filter:/Orion.Nodes[CustomProperties.Site={0}]

Attribute Site is not in schema for CustomProperties,

instead please use following:

filter:/Orion.Nodes[CustomProperties.OrionSite.Host='{0}']

You can use any attribute from Orion.Site schema (Host, Name, SiteID..)

Thanks for the response!

I finally found found the issue. My service account had an account limitation for a single group. It was just weird that instead of saying I didn't have permission, it acted like it worked.

The response from tomas.vrabel was written before you found the root cause, but it got held up in the moderation queue and only got posted now.

Glad you got it working!

Now i'm getting a different problem. I can't really explain why this isn't working anymore. I used your above example to insert groups for custom property 'site' in a deployment I did in October and didn't have any issues. When I went back and grabbed that code to re-use it for another, it no longer seems to work(on either server). Just to make sure i'm not screwing up the API call, I used the example you've posted on github on both servers and got the same exact result.

From python client:

requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://10.114.128.21:17778/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/Invoke/Orion.Container/CreateContainer

From information service log on servers:

  <item type="string">Sample Python Group</item>

  <item type="string">Core</item>

  <item type="number">60</item>

  <item type="number">0</item>

  <item type="string">Group created by the Python sample script.</item>

  <item type="boolean">true</item>

  <item type="array">

    <item type="object">

      <Definition type="string">filter:/Orion.Nodes[Vendor='Cisco']</Definition>

      <Name type="string">Cisco Devices</Name>

    </item>

    <item type="object">

      <Definition type="string">filter:/Orion.Nodes[Vendor='Windows']</Definition>

      <Name type="string">Windows Devices</Name>

    </item>

  </item>

</root>

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

   at SolarWinds.InformationService.Verb.VerbExecutor.Invoke(Object hostInstance, Object[] parameters)

   at SolarWinds.InformationService.Verb.VerbExecutorContext.Invoke()

   at SolarWinds.InformationService.Core.InformationService.Invoke[T](String entity, String verb, Action`1 setupParameters, Func`2 extractReturnValue)