Director API Dependencies

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Hi

I trying to automate a few things in regards to deployment of hosts that has a parrent relationship.
Background
I have 320+ locations connected to our network through a router. That router is the parent for that given location.
On the location i have from zero to 10+ hosts that i monitor, in at least to diffent ip subnets.
When i deploy or refresh the location i would like to add a dependency rule in Director through the API.
Is it possible at the moment?

I have tried using the /director/dependency/ url with and without add and add?type=apply and the director/dependencies/ url.
But I am getting a internal server error (500) each time and i just add one new apply rules.

I have also tried to fetch the current apply-rule configuration, converting it to json and adding my new dependency-rule to the object, and POST / PUT but i get the http 500 error.

I am creating the hosts through the API already, so that works fine.

Is it possible to create new dependency rules through Director API?
If yes how do is it done?

/Regards
Brian Møller

2

Hi and welcome,

Could you give us an example of your complete API request? It would be easier to help. Because it is working, we are doing this regularly.

3

Hi Stevie
Thank you for the reply.
I’m doing this with curl (i know the formatting is ruining something):
curl -k -H ‘Accept: application/json’ -u ‘user:pass’ -X ‘POST’ -i ‘https://icinga-host/director/director/dependency/add’ -d { “objects”: [{“apply_to”: “host”,“assign_filter”: “host.address=%22192.168.1.%2A%22|host.address=%2210.1.1.%2A%22”,“imports”: “Dependency-host-template”,“object_name”: “location123”,“object_type”: “apply”,“parent_host”: “location123-hx”,“states”: “Up”},{“apply_to”: “host”,“assign_filter”: “host.name=%22location123-hx%22”,“imports”: “Dependency-host-template”,“object_name”: “location123-hx”,“object_type”: “apply”,“parent_host”: “location123-nia”,“states”: “Up”}]}

Could i see how you do it?

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not really, if you are using this: FAQ - Icinga Community :wink:

I’m doing this in a perl script. So it should something like this:

curl -k -H ‘Accept: application/json’ -u ‘user:pass’ -X ‘POST’ 'https://icinga-master/icingaweb2/director -d { [data] }`

The data is looking like this ( snippset from my perl script):

{
object_name => “$location”,
apply_to => “host”,
assign_filter => “host.name="xx*"|host.name="yy*"”,
imports => [ “$DEPENDENCY_TEMPLATE_ROUTER” ],
object_type => “apply”,
parent_host => “$hostname”,
states => [ “Up” ],
zone => “[icinga zone]”,
};