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Automate adding a discovery profile

jesnyder

Hello,

I want to automate adding scheduled discovery profiles.

I am new to Orion and have been tasked with creating a-lot of discovery profiles.  I opened a support ticket with Solarwinds support and they directed me to the SDK for this job.

https://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/39001

Here is our manual process for creating Discovery Profiles...

Network Sonar Discovery > Add New Discovery > SNMP Credential are listed (Next) > VMware: "Poll for VMware" is checked and the credentials are listed (Next) > Windows Credentials are not listed and must be added (Next) > Network Selection Method is "Subnets" > Add a New Subnet (I enter Subnet Address/Mask) (Next) > Enter Description (Next) > Some of our Discoveries are scheduled Daily some Weekly with the "Advanced" option (Schedule)

I want to automate adding these scheduled discovery profiles with powershell.  I have installed the SDK and have used the Get-SwisData cmdlet to query the Orion database.  I have seen some examples here on thwack related to automatically creating discoveries with powershell but they are using XML input.  I am having trouble finding the XML templates mentioned to review the options I might have?  Can someone help me with this task?

Thanks,

Jeremy

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    Did anyone ever direct you to a workable template or example?

  • 0 in reply to wlipford

    I apologize for the very late reply.  I have created our discovery in powershell and it has been working good.  Luckily, I found everything that I needed here on thwack.  I still struggle with some things.  Like finding a comprehensive list of swis verbs and navigating the schema.

    I have reviewed the wiki and the schema documentation but I am not a programmer.  I understand entity relationship diagrams, SWQL syntax and shell scripting like powershell.

    Home · solarwinds/OrionSDK Wiki · GitHub

    SolarWinds Information Service v3.0 Schema Documentation Index

    When you guys build these xml things I don't understand where you find the values.  For example, where did "<SharedCredentialInfo>" come from?  I see the Orion.Credential table and filled in the ids from there but I never would have gotten there by myself if I did not have the thwack example.

    $CoreParameter = ([xml]"<CorePluginConfigurationContext xmlns:i='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns='http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2012/Orion/Core'>

    <BulkList >

    $build

    </BulkList>

      <Credentials>   

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>7</CredentialID>

        <Order>1</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>14</CredentialID>

        <Order>2</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>23</CredentialID>

        <Order>3</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>24</CredentialID>

        <Order>4</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>4</CredentialID>

        <Order>5</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>6</CredentialID>

        <Order>6</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>3</CredentialID>

        <Order>7</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

      </Credentials>

    <WmiRetriesCount>1</WmiRetriesCount>

    <WmiRetryIntervalMiliseconds>2000</WmiRetryIntervalMiliseconds>

    </CorePluginConfigurationContext>").DocumentElement

    $CoreConfig = Invoke-SwisVerb $swis "Orion.Discovery" "CreateCorePluginConfiguration" @($CoreParameter)

    $CoreConfigInnerPiece = $coreConfig.InnerXml

    $StartDiscoveryCfg = ([xml]"

    <StartDiscoveryContext xmlns:i='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns='http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2012/Orion/Core'>

      <Name>$DiscoveryName</Name>

      <EngineId>1</EngineId>

      <JobTimeoutSeconds>36000</JobTimeoutSeconds>

      <SearchTimeoutMiliseconds>100</SearchTimeoutMiliseconds>

      <SnmpTimeoutMiliseconds>500</SnmpTimeoutMiliseconds>

      <SnmpRetries>1</SnmpRetries>

      <RepeatIntervalMiliseconds>1800000</RepeatIntervalMiliseconds>

      <SnmpPort>161</SnmpPort>

      <HopCount>0</HopCount>

      <PreferredSnmpVersion>SNMP2c</PreferredSnmpVersion>

      <DisableIcmp>false</DisableIcmp>

      <AllowDuplicateNodes>false</AllowDuplicateNodes>

      <IsAutoImport>false</IsAutoImport>

      <ImportUpInterface>false</ImportUpInterface>

      <ImportDownInterface>false</ImportDownInterface>

      <ImportShutdownInterface>false</ImportShutdownInterface>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <PluginConfigurations>

        <PluginConfiguration>

            <PluginConfigurationItem>$CoreConfigInnerPiece</PluginConfigurationItem>

        </PluginConfiguration>

      </PluginConfigurations>

    </StartDiscoveryContext>"

    ).DocumentElement

    $out = Invoke-SwisVerb $swis "Orion.Discovery" "StartDiscovery" @($StartDiscoveryCfg)

    $output = $out.innerxml

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  • 0 in reply to wlipford

    I apologize for the very late reply.  I have created our discovery in powershell and it has been working good.  Luckily, I found everything that I needed here on thwack.  I still struggle with some things.  Like finding a comprehensive list of swis verbs and navigating the schema.

    I have reviewed the wiki and the schema documentation but I am not a programmer.  I understand entity relationship diagrams, SWQL syntax and shell scripting like powershell.

    Home · solarwinds/OrionSDK Wiki · GitHub

    SolarWinds Information Service v3.0 Schema Documentation Index

    When you guys build these xml things I don't understand where you find the values.  For example, where did "<SharedCredentialInfo>" come from?  I see the Orion.Credential table and filled in the ids from there but I never would have gotten there by myself if I did not have the thwack example.

    $CoreParameter = ([xml]"<CorePluginConfigurationContext xmlns:i='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns='http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2012/Orion/Core'>

    <BulkList >

    $build

    </BulkList>

      <Credentials>   

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>7</CredentialID>

        <Order>1</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>14</CredentialID>

        <Order>2</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>23</CredentialID>

        <Order>3</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>24</CredentialID>

        <Order>4</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>4</CredentialID>

        <Order>5</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>6</CredentialID>

        <Order>6</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

        <SharedCredentialInfo>

        <CredentialID>3</CredentialID>

        <Order>7</Order>

        </SharedCredentialInfo>

      </Credentials>

    <WmiRetriesCount>1</WmiRetriesCount>

    <WmiRetryIntervalMiliseconds>2000</WmiRetryIntervalMiliseconds>

    </CorePluginConfigurationContext>").DocumentElement

    $CoreConfig = Invoke-SwisVerb $swis "Orion.Discovery" "CreateCorePluginConfiguration" @($CoreParameter)

    $CoreConfigInnerPiece = $coreConfig.InnerXml

    $StartDiscoveryCfg = ([xml]"

    <StartDiscoveryContext xmlns:i='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns='http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2012/Orion/Core'>

      <Name>$DiscoveryName</Name>

      <EngineId>1</EngineId>

      <JobTimeoutSeconds>36000</JobTimeoutSeconds>

      <SearchTimeoutMiliseconds>100</SearchTimeoutMiliseconds>

      <SnmpTimeoutMiliseconds>500</SnmpTimeoutMiliseconds>

      <SnmpRetries>1</SnmpRetries>

      <RepeatIntervalMiliseconds>1800000</RepeatIntervalMiliseconds>

      <SnmpPort>161</SnmpPort>

      <HopCount>0</HopCount>

      <PreferredSnmpVersion>SNMP2c</PreferredSnmpVersion>

      <DisableIcmp>false</DisableIcmp>

      <AllowDuplicateNodes>false</AllowDuplicateNodes>

      <IsAutoImport>false</IsAutoImport>

      <ImportUpInterface>false</ImportUpInterface>

      <ImportDownInterface>false</ImportDownInterface>

      <ImportShutdownInterface>false</ImportShutdownInterface>

      <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>

      <PluginConfigurations>

        <PluginConfiguration>

            <PluginConfigurationItem>$CoreConfigInnerPiece</PluginConfigurationItem>

        </PluginConfiguration>

      </PluginConfigurations>

    </StartDiscoveryContext>"

    ).DocumentElement

    $out = Invoke-SwisVerb $swis "Orion.Discovery" "StartDiscovery" @($StartDiscoveryCfg)

    $output = $out.innerxml

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