Adding new network groups via API gives out a Error 404

[mateus_cruz]

Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble adding new network groups using the API add-group endpoint. I was able can create new hosts using the add-host endpoint so that confirms that my user does have Write permissions too so the issue is not related to that. I followed the documentation part which states the API has a option for "add-group with multiple members" but can't seem to make it work, I end up getting 404 client errors for some reason. When I try the format for adding a group with a single member I also keep getting 404 errors. Is there something I don't know about? Maybe this option is deprecated or something?

Here's an example just like the payload I'm trying to POST to the API add-group endpoint...

{

      "name" :  "my_testing_group",

      "members" :  [ "192.168.1.156", "192.168.1.158" ]

}

[Amir_Senn · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I see that in the member you used IPs and not hostname.

I reproduced in my env. I tried to add IPs to a group and got a failure, after creating hosts for IPs I managed to add them with hostname. Can you try to create an object for them as well and then retry?

[mateus_cruz]

Hey,

the provided solution worked, but only when I added the hosts using the API mgmt_cli command line, when adding using the Web Services API (which I used via Python) it seems like the hosts objects are not saved and don't show up anywhere, even after publishing. Weird thing is that I can make multiple add-host commands in the web services API and it doesn't complain about repeated hosts being added, however, using the mgmt_cli and adding the same host more than once displays a error message since the host already exists of course.

[Amir_Senn]

Any case the publish is to another session? When you run a few commands do you save/provide session ID?

[mateus_cruz]

Hey Amir,

I found the problem, my python code ended my user session too soon, not giving time for checkpoint to publish the session properly, I fixed that. Your help with the insight of using hostnames instead of IPs solved my main problem. Thank you for the help Amir!

[johnnyringo]

Would be great if you could share the Python code snippet.  I'm currently working with the web services API and am curious what everyone's using as far as modules/libraries and especially how they're handling sessions and timeouts. 

Personally, I'm using aiohttp so I can make the calls async, but would image requests is the most popular.  

[mateus_cruz]

Hey I'm not sure I can share my code, but I can tell you I'm using the requests library, first using the /login endpoint, then using the returned token from the POST request to make further queries in the API.

[Amir_Senn]

You're welcome