2.5.0 : 8.1 1 Adding Devices Programatically : Comments

RE: 8.1 1 Adding Devices Programatically

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:13:28 GMT

I just updated this document to fix an error in how the example serv.loadDevice method was called. It had previously suggested that you should build a dictionary containing key value pairs for each of the XML-RPC attributes you wanted to supply for the new device. This was incorrect because the loadDevice method takes positional parameters in the order specified in the XML-RPC Attributes table, not a single dictionary.

Ticket #5399: deviceName getting passed as a dict, expecting a string

http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/ticket/5399

RE: 8.1 1 Adding Devices Programatically

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:32:56 GMT

Just out of curiosity.... if the arguments are positional in the xml-rpc call, how does it handle multiple group/system Path calls? If you declare more than one how does it know when you are done declaring them?

RE: 8.1 1 Adding Devices Programatically

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:25:05 GMT

I too would like to know how to add multiple groups,systems using positional parameters.

RE: 8.1 1 Adding Devices Programatically

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:18:50 GMT

Here's a VBscript example:

' The device to be added
ipToAdd = "192.168.1.105"
zDeviceClass = "/Ping"

'Zenoss URL
zenossURL = "192.168.1.107:8080"

'userid and password for zenoss
zUser = "admin"
zPwd = "password"

'----------------------------No need to change below here --------------------------------
zenossAction = "/zport/dmd/DeviceLoader/loadDevice?"
zDeviceToAdd = "deviceName="
zClass = "&devicePath=" & zDeviceClass
zAuth = "&__ac_name=" & zUser & "&__ac_password=" & zPwd

senddata = zDeviceToAdd & ipToAdd & zClass & zAuth

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set http = CreateObject("Microsoft.XmlHttp")

http.open "POST", "http://" & zenossURL & zenossAction, FALSE
http.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
http.send senddata

WScript.Echo http.responseText

set WshShell = nothing
set http = nothing

RE: 8.1 1 Adding Devices Programatically

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:17:16 GMT

From the Perl side of the fence, if using Zenoss >= 3.0, the following CPAN module can be used:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Zenoss/

RE: 8.1 1 Adding Devices Programatically

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:13:24 GMT

When I try to pass the argument "locationPath", the event.log issues the following:

2011-12-15T14:11:28 ERROR extdirect addDevice() got an unexpected keyword argument 'locationPath'

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/opt/zenoss/Products/ZenUtils/extdirect/router.py", line 128, in _processDirectRequest

result = _targetfn(**data)

File "/opt/zenoss/Products/Zuul/decorators.py", line 28, in inner

return decorator_func(func, *args, **kwargs)

File "/opt/zenoss/Products/Zuul/decorators.py", line 90, in wrapped_fn

return f(self, *args, **kwargs)

TypeError: addDevice() got an unexpected keyword argument 'locationPath'

This is happening mainly when I try to create a device with a location. I don't want to create a device and then having to move it again with the moveDevices method. Any suggestions?