Adding computers to a Group

Have you tried creating Dynamic Groups? Dynamic Groups can be built on virtually any property, one of which is Custom Properties which can be imported/exported via text/excel/csv.

11. If you want to dynamically select group members based on shared properties, follow these steps:

1. Click Add dynamic query.
2. Type a name for the query in the Dynamic query object name field.
3. Select a SolarWinds object type in the SolarWinds Object is list.
4. Click Add Condition to specify further selection properties.
   Note: Use the question mark (?) character as a multiple character wildcard. Use the underscore (_) character as a single character wildcard.
5. Click Preview to verify that the dynamic query is selecting your intended objects.
6. Click Save.

The dynamic query is a nice feature, but my need is more static and basic. I would like to create dependencies for 700 firewalls (Parent) and their children (switch, server, server). This would take a group for each of the 700 sets of child objects, but there doesn't seem to be a way to create groups in bulk, or to create dependencies in bulk.  Or have I just missed it?

NPM 11.5 includes automatic dependency mapping which sounds more like what you're describing.

Dependencies

• Automatically calculate node-to-node dependencies based on topology connections.

I am about to embark on this journey and while I want to use the same custom properties as mentioned above for populating the groups with parent or child devices, I want to actually create the parent and child groups and the dependency programatically. I have created groups before from powershell and it's easy. I do not see the same function for creating dependencies so I'll have to just update the SQL table for it.

I feel this site is ample preparation:

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Maybe something like this? -> Automatic Dependencies Based On Custom Properties (Node Location)