I have automated adding nodes via IP address to Solarwinds, but it seems the new nodes must have pollers assigned to them in order for everything to work. I want to simply add these nodes via ICMP, and had assumed that setting the ObjectSubType property to "ICMP" would have been sufficient. I am fairly new to Solarwinds and haven't touched the pollers, so I'd like to figure out a simple way to add the ICMP generic poller. Here is my script thus far to add nodes from a CSV file with IP addresses. I am assuming I will need to find the node ID or the Uri after the node has been created in order to assign a poller to it, but I am not sure where to go after that.
import requests
import json
from getpass import getpass
import csv
import os
import time
from SWnodelist import SwisClient
def ip_to_guid(IPAddress):
ip = IPAddress.split('.') ip_guid = "" for part in reversed(ip): ip_guid += (format(int(part), '02x')) ip_guid += '-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' return ip_guid
def add_nodes_to_solarwinds(npm_server, username, password):
swis = SwisClient(npm_server, username, password) t = (time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")) csv = open('IP_Diff-%s.csv' %t, 'r') try: for ip in csv: IP_input = ip EntityType = "Orion.Nodes" swis.create(EntityType, IPAddress = IP_input, IPAddressGUID = ip_to_guid(IP_input), Caption = str(IP_input), DynamicIP = False, EngineID = 1, Status = 1, UnManaged = False, Allow64BitCounters = True, ObjectSubType = "ICMP", MachineType = "", VendorIcon = "", RediscoveryInterval = 30, PollInterval = 60, StatCollection = 1, City = "REDACTED", Node_Type = "TBD", ALERT_CPU = 90, ALERT_RAM = 90) finally: csv.close()
def main():
npm_server = REDACTED username = REDACTED password = REDACTED add_nodes_to_solarwinds(npm_server,username,password)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()