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Subject:	you're asking a pretty
Author:	Andrew Kirch
Posted:	2015-01-29 13:31

you're asking a pretty specific development question, I'd recommend joining us for Developer's Hours to get one of our devs to answer it for you. Dev Hours are found on IRC twice a week, and you can refer to the schedule here: http://www.zenoss.org/blog/201501/q1-dev-hours

Andrew Kirch

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Subject:	Get the JSON API kit from
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-01-29 14:08

Get the JSON API kit from here: http://wiki.zenoss.org/Working_with_the_JSON_API

then:

zenoss_api device_router Device_Router getManufacturerNames ''

zenoss_api device_router DeviceRouter getHardwareProductNames '{"manufacturer":"Cisco"}'

I don't see a JSON method to load them. Firebug shows how it the GUI does it, it POSTs into the manufacturer URL e.g.

http://yerzenoss:8080/zport/dmd/Manufacturers/Cisco

a string like:

filter=&tableName=manufacturerproducts&zenScreenName=viewManufacturerOverview.pt&start%3Aint=0&batchSize=40&prodName=davetesthw2&manage_addHardware%3Amethod=OK

You could automate that with a bunch of 'curl' POSTs

Hope this helps,

Dave

p.s. themost useful tools for working with Zenoss: the JSON API i listed above and the Firebug plugin for Firefox. Oh, and Perl module Parse::JSON.

Dave

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Subject:	Ah sorry this doesn't get you
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-01-29 14:17

Sorry I misread the part about the keys. I don't see that in the API, but I could figure out how to screen scrape it from a CURL. So this doesn't get you the keys in/out but maybe it points you in the right direction...

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Subject:	ok thanks for your answers, I
Author:	Charles Bueche
Posted:	2015-02-27 02:18

ok thanks for your answers, I will try to do something around them.