Adding a device through a rest call can be done by a simple web get. In this example we will use wget to add a device. If you use wget don't forget to escape the "&" or wrap the URL in single quotes.

$ wget
      'http://admin:zenoss@MYHOST:8080/zport/dmd/DeviceLoader/loadDevice\
?deviceName=NEWDEVICE&devicePath=/Server/Linux'

The result of this command will be the log of auto-discovery and you can look for the string "NEWDEVICE loaded!" to see if it was successful. Possible failure messages are: "NEWDEVICE exists" and "no snmp found"

This is an example of how to add a device using Python. Because XML-RPC can be used from any language feel free to use your favorite. What is important here is the base URL in ServerProxy, passing positional parameters, and calling loadDevice on your proxy object.

>>> from xmlrpclib import ServerProxy
>>> url = 'http://admin:zenoss@MYHOST:8080/zport/dmd/DeviceLoader'
>>> serv = ServerProxy(url)
>>> serv.loadDevice('NEWDEVICE', '/Server/Linux')

You can check on the device with another XML-RPC call:

>>> from xmlrpclib import ServerProxy
>>> cp = 'Devices/Server/Linux/devices'
>>> url = 'http://admin:zenoss@MYHOST:8080/zport/dmd/%s/NEWDEVICE' % cp
>>> serv = ServerProxy(url)
>>> print serv.getManageIp()