Bulk Maintenance using REST

[Issac08]

Hi All,


How to place multiple robots in maintenance  which are placed different hubs using Rest API . I dont want to use USM console because i have mixed set IP or Host name which i difficult to use and sometime it doesnt work too.

[Gene Howard]

There is no bulk maintenance using the rest API.
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/GA/probe-development-tools/restful-web-services/webservices-rest-apis/webservices-rest-call-reference/maintenance-calls.html

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Gene Howard
Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Issac08]

By anyway using SQL query can we schedule maintenance ?  As of now we are using IM console and we have 30 hubs and it is difficult to search robots cross Hubs . Any suggestions are welcome .

[Gene Howard]

There is no bulk configuration for maintenance at all.
The closest we come is being able to set up a group in USM and add robots to that group.
The problem sounds like an issue with your IP and naming conventions.

The only way around this I can think of would be some custom scripting by you to identify the robot in question and then put it into maintenance mode using the rest API call.

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Gene Howard
Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Luc Christiaens]

If you can define some search criteria how these robots can be selected you can perhaps try/use the Perl tool:
Link to post:
https://community.broadcom.com/enterprisesoftware/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=6e99bfe5-0543-45f3-bd6e-33a1f11c825b
Link to attachment:
https://community.broadcom.com/enterprisesoftware/viewdocument/maintenance-mode-via-command-line-2
This tool makes it possible (in 1 run):
- generic search criteria in regex form 
- define the maintenance calendar
- add all selected robots in this calendar

[Matthias Gruber]

Hi!
I think you have to do some custom scripting. I did that for us with some python-scripting and REST, thats my "bulk"-Maintenance... simply gave a list of hosts to thats script, which crawls through  the domain and hubs (15 in our env.), look into the DB if there is a Maintenance-schedule for that time at all etc...  took some days.
Dont think you can use something out of the box

cheers
Matthias

[Issac08]

It is possible to share here @Matthias Gruber?​

[Matthias Gruber]

Hi!

Sorry, I am not allowed to post the whole thing :-(
But I'll try to put some "excerpts" out of it or/and some sort of "flow" what I am doing.

cheers
Matthias

[Matthias Gruber]

Hi!
Got permission to post my code.... I'll put something up on Monday, if still needed

cheers
Matthias

[Issac08]

Thanks

[Matthias Gruber]

No Problem (anymore) ;-)
Hope it helps in some ways.

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