OpenAPI vs Rest which to use and how?

[Scott STANSBURY]

I want to create a query on each device and show what SNMP Profile is being used to discover and to poll that device. Which of the choices that CA has is the appropriate one? And how would that be completed. 

[Joseph Radosta]

No perfect way to do it that i can see, but if you use a rest client to do a post with the following syntax in the body:

 

 

<FilterSelect xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="filter.xsd">

<Select use="exclude" isa="exclude">
<Item use="exclude">
<Name use="include"/>
</Item>

<Device use="exclude">
<PrimaryIPAddress use="include"/>
</Device>

<ManageableDevice>
<SNMPProfileID use="include"/>
</ManageableDevice>

</Select>
</FilterSelect>

 

 

This will only give you the snmp profile id along with the ip address

 

You would then have to go to http://<da>:8581/rest/profiles/snmpv1/   (or snmpv3) and match up the id's to the profile names

 

You could also add an id on to the end of the url.  For example:

 

http://<da>:8581/rest/profiles/snmpv1/4980

 

That gives me this

 

<SNMPv1Profile version="1.0.0">

<ID>4980</ID>

<CommunityName>h8i7KBJK72U=</CommunityName>

<PortNumber>161</PortNumber>

<IsAlso>

<IsA name="CommunicationProfile" rootURL="profiles"/>

</IsAlso>

<CommunicationProfile version="1.0.0">

<UseForWrite>false</UseForWrite>

<Rank>1</Rank>

<ProfileName>default</ProfileName>

</CommunicationProfile>

<CommunicationFailurePolicy version="1.0.0">

<Retries>2</Retries>

<Timeout>3000</Timeout>

</CommunicationFailurePolicy>

</SNMPv1Profile>

 

 

You could probably do the same sort of thing with openapi, and it might be a little more intuitive given you can build the query

 

HTH,

Joe

[Scott STANSBURY]

Thanks Joseph!

[Scott STANSBURY]

Joe for the post what should I have for the rest/"service" name, i post this and get 

405 Method Not Allowed 145.00 ms