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Hi.
I am starting to code up some cleanup routines for services on XI.
I love the new RESTful API.
Is there any exhaustive doc available?
The doc in the help menu is a great start but is, by no means, complete.
For example, when I try to delete a service that was previously deleted, I get this:

"error": "Could not find a unique id for this service."

That's fine, but it isn't documented, as far as I can see, in the web doc.
Just looking for all the possibilities so I can code for relevant ones.

BTW, I would actually expect, that when I GET all the services for a host, the previously deleted ones would not continue showing up.
Is that because I haven't done an apply yet?

Finally, what are the performance implications on XI of having a bunch of potentially concurrent applyconfig calls?

Thanks,
Rick

grenley wrote: Is there any exhaustive doc available?
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The doc in the help menu is a great start but is, by no means, complete.

Just what is available in the help menu. It's a work in progress. If you have specific questions or use-cases, a forum post can usually get those figured out.

grenley wrote: BTW, I would actually expect, that when I GET all the services for a host, the previously deleted ones would not continue showing up.
Is that because I haven't done an apply yet?

Probably, yeah. The API is undergoing a bit of a re-design on the back-end which should help solve some of these consensus issues.

grenley wrote:Finally, what are the performance implications on XI of having a bunch of potentially concurrent applyconfig calls?

Generally speaking, the applyconfig should be the very last step of any sort of chain of API calls. Having a bunch running at the same time can cause issues outside of performance.

It seems that the API may not be working properly.
One of the documented interfaces is to be able to delete a host.
Here's the URL I used:

curl -XDELETE "http://xxxxxxx.xxxx.att.com/nagiosxi/ap ... lyconfig=1"

Here's what was returned:

"error": "Host cannot be deleted using this method. Must be deleted through the CCM."

Any help?

Thanks,
Rick

Does this particular host have dependencies (particularly with services) that exist? As goes with the Core Config Manager, the API requires that all dependencies for a particular object be removed before the object itself gets removed.