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Adding values to an existing custom property

coreilly over 5 years ago

Hi, I'm new to SolarWinds and I am hoping that someone can help me with a problem that I am having and cannot find an answer to.

I have an existing custom property drop down control populated with values and I would like to add additional values via the Rest Api. I am making the following call:

https://<Myserver>:<MyPort>/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/Create/Orion.CustomPropertyValues

and passing the following JSON payload:

{

"Table": "NodesCustomProperties",

"Field": "CarrierName",

"Value": "aaaTest"

}

Making this call via PostMan returns the following

{

"Message": "Entity Orion.CustomPropertyValues does not contain any key properties.\r\nParameter name: entityType",

"ExceptionType": "System.ArgumentException",

"FullException": "System.ArgumentException: Entity Orion.CustomPropertyValues does not contain any key properties.\r\nParameter name: entityType\r\n at SolarWinds.InformationService.Core.CrudProcessor.<CreateInternal>d__18.MoveNext()\r\n at System.Linq.Enumerable.First[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)\r\n at SolarWinds.InformationService.Core.CrudProcessor.Create(String entityType, IDictionary`2 properties, IQueryExecutionContext context)\r\n at SolarWinds.InformationService.Core.InformationService.Create(String entityType, IDictionary`2 properties)"

}

If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

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0 tdanner over 5 years ago

To add a value to this list, use the ModifyCustomPropety verb. See this page for a description: https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK/wiki/Managing-Custom-Properties#modifying-custom-properties
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0 coreilly over 5 years ago in reply to tdanner

Thank you for the quick answer Tim. Since I am already weeks down the RESTAPI rabbit hole, do you know if there is a way to do this using REST?
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0 tdanner over 5 years ago in reply to coreilly

Yes, all API operations are available over REST. I don't have sample code for that particular combination, but you can look at other examples of calling verbs over REST.
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0 austin.swan over 5 years ago

Okay so i recently did a bunch of this using curl in a bash script, the way i had to update custom properties on nodes is as follows.
I made a POST call to:
https://<myServer>:<MyPort>/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/swis://L1SOrion.l1s.local/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID=1/CustomProperties
input the proper nodeid followed by /CustomProperties
Then the only data i had to put in the body is {"CarrierName": "TestNet"}
Hope it helps.
After Looking at some of my scripts, another option you could do is this:
POSThttps://<MyServer>:<MyPort>/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/BulkUpdate
and then in the Body of the request put in the following info
{ "uris":[
"<NodeURI>/CustomProperties"
],
"properties":
{
"CustomBandwidth": "True",
"InBandwidth": "1000000000",
"OutBandwidth": "1000000000",
"ISP": "TestNet"
}
}
And that will allopw you to update multiple custom properties at once for that node.
Again, Hope it helps
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0 coreilly over 5 years ago

Thank you everyone for your help with this. Based on all the submissions, I was able to piece together the following which resolved the problem.
https://<servername>:<port>/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/Invoke/Orion.NodesCustomProperties/ModifyCustomProperty
[
          "CarrierName",
         "This is a test carrier",
         4000,
         [
              "aaaTest",
              "bbbTest",
              "cccTest"
         ]
]
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