Hi
I wanted to do something like this, but did not get the point about the csv file (as for me, all my relevant data is in solarwinds databases)
Honestly, i´m no programmer (by far) but find it interesting how to save time, and have consistent data - Lazy network engineer mindset i guess
I had some help, and ended up with this - And is working perfect for me .
Next step is to create groups for my sites, where category is NOT WAN, and then figure out how to script dependancies between the two groups for the site - wan and lan
And ... a feature request - Build this into the application instead
Albeit i love this scripting (over manual labor) i´d appriciate the feature natively, and not customized, if i can
$cities = Get-SwisData $swis "SELECT DISTINCT City FROM Orion.NodesCustomProperties WHERE City IS NOT NULL"
foreach($city in $cities)
{
$members = @(
@{ Name = "$city WAN nodes"; Definition = "filter:/Orion.Nodes[Contains(CustomProperties.Category,'WAN') AND CustomProperties.City='$city']" }
)
$groupId = (Invoke-SwisVerb $swis "Orion.Container" "CreateContainer" @(
# group name "$city WAN", # owner, must be 'Core' "Core", # refresh frequency 60, # Status rollup mode: # 0 = Mixed status shows warning # 1 = Show worst status # 2 = Show best status 0, # group description "$city WAN nodes, selected based on custom property value nodes city", # polling enabled/disabled = true/false (in lowercase) "true", # group members ([xml]@( "<ArrayOfMemberDefinitionInfo xmlns='http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2008/Orion'>", [string]($members |% { "<MemberDefinitionInfo><Name>$($_.Name)</Name><Definition>$($_.Definition)</Definition></MemberDefinitionInfo>" } ), "</ArrayOfMemberDefinitionInfo>" )).DocumentElement )).InnerText
}