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jadomNew Participant
asked in Automation
http/https checks

Hi guys,Can we create http/https checks in Netbrain for monitoring remote endpoints?Cheers

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LucyCRNew Participant
asked in Dynamic Map
NetBrain map not saving changes

It´s been a couple of days since Netbrain´s map changes are not being saved. I add every link, save the map and when I log out and log back in all the changes dissapeared. Does anyone know how to solve this? Server was restarted for patching and the issue persists so that didn´t work. Any advice will be appreciate it.

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AnupNew Participant
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getdevicebyip on a qapp

Hi Team, i am trying to build a report via QAPP and want to populate the device name based on the IP.i’m using the inbuilt function “GetDevicesByIP” and that gives the output only when the variable type is string (not device) and is like below:<netbrain.common.models._datamodel.Device object at 0x000001F2803BFA60; name=XXXXXXX>]  is there a better way to get just the XXXXX part on a QAPP. i;m aware the intents might handle this differently and im trying to have this implemented as a QAPP

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dawal1337Inspiring
asked in Automation
Qapp - Input Variable File - How to Open File in Python from Netbrain Desktop

Greetings, I am trying to open a text file named “simple-textfile’ on my NetBrain Desktop in a Python Script Module inside a Qapp but am receiving the following error message:OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid Argument: ‘nbfile://Desktop/simple-textfile’ How can I get Python to read or interpret the filepath and open it for parsing? Snippet Python Script:jfile = $Input1.jfile with open(jfile, ‘r’) as f:  asdf = f.read()  AddMessage(asdf) $Input1.jfile  is “nbfile://Desktop/sample-textfile” I tested the filepath with os and it returns that the filepath does not exist:import osif os.path.exists(jfile):  AddMessage(“The file path exists”)else:  AddMessage(“the file path does not exist”) Result:“The file path does not exist.” Any help is greatly appreciated! Best Regards, Dave

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dawal1337Inspiring
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Global Engineering Studio - Golden Config Template - How to re-iterate

Greetings,I am running into a problem trying to simplify Golden Template Configuration in Golden Engineering Studio (GES).I am unable to get the Golden Template Configuration in GES to re-iterate through all parsed line vtys (line vty 0 4, line vty 5 15, etc.) and validate children configuration. I was hoping to not have to hard-set in my template configuration the expected line vtys, I want that to be dynamic. My only concern is that each line vty has “transport input ssh” configured, for example.Is that possible? I have tried using the following Configuration Parameter in my Golden Template Configuration:Name: Line_VTYValue:line vty $line_vty_start $line_vty_end transport input ssh And mapped the respective vars with my parsers:$line_vty_start → $vty_start$line_vty_end → $vty_end  Alternatively, configured the following as my Golden Template Configuration (pretty much the same, but not using Configuration Parameter): line vty $vty_start $vty_end transport input ssh My Parser for the

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dawal1337Inspiring
asked in General Questions
Create new custom device attribute using Python (not API)

Good Day,Netbrain Version 10.0 How can I create a custom device Attribute using Python, NOT using the API method? Documentation shows how to do it using APIs, but not using the “non-API” method. I know the following Python methods/functions exist:SetDeviceProperty and GetProperty: Example:SetDeviceProperty("is_external_router", $_device.GetProperty("name"), "Yes, External Router")AddMessage($_device.GetProperty("is_external_router")) Of course, it’s not going to work (prints “None”) without first creating the new Attribute. As stated, I need to know what the function/method name is to create a custom attribute. Thanks in advance for your help. Dave

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Dug1609New Participant
asked in General Questions
Device Details: Allow changing the 'Default' CLI Interface Command

When in the ‘Device Details’ view, under the ‘CLI Commands’ tab, allow users to choose which command is the ‘Default’ command.Or alternatively, allow users to ‘Order’ the CLI Commands as they see fit, with the Top command becoming the ‘Default’.  

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RightGuyNew Participant
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How do I know what CLI commands NetBrain is executing on my devices?

Hey - I was wondering if there was some way that you guys can tell me where I can find the commands that NetBrains is using when it talks to my device?

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Subhojit DuttaNew Participant
posted in General Questions
Netbrain SNMP Walk with different username

Hi, We need to perform an SNMP walk using a different username and password instead of the NetBrain discovery credentials.Parser library using netbrain SNMP discovery credentials.   

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slodowic
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API changes in R12, not getting a list of all devices when using Get Devices API

Since the R12 upgrade, I'm not able to get all device using the API: /ServicesAPI/API/V1/CMDB/DevicesI'm only pulling 50 devices, and can’t seem to get the whole inventory. This was working fine previously. Anyone else running into a similar issue? Not sure if its an issue with my install and something changed or something with R12?

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dpriorNew Participant
asked in Automation
See Palo Alto Firewall Configuration in Set Format?

When getting the configuration for Palo Alto Firewalls in the Network Intents it is not giving it in the set format so its hard to check for compliance. How would I be able to see the configuration of the Palo Alto Firewalls in a set format like the link below?https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClHoCAK

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sdavid5670New Participant
asked in General Questions
How do you get Netbrain to see a layer 2 neighbor when it isn't automatically discovering it?

In certain regions of our network, we are not allowed to enable discovery protocols (such as CDP or LLDP) and Netbrain isn’t effective at discovering layer 2 neighborships in these cases.  Is there a way that I can manually teach Netbrain of layer 2 neighborships when it cannot figure them out on its own?

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pjhenningNew Participant
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ADT Tables

Is it possible to have the ADT tables keeping the existing data and only update new data as an option?Example, once devices are queried, the information of online devices will be populated into the ADT, the next day, some of those devices might be offline and others online again, and again the table will only collect information of the online devices at that time and previous data will be lost because devices might be offline.Have ADT table that keeps building up on information as devices comes online.

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harishchandrasFrequent Participant
asked in General Questions
Failed to login, error code: 301; error description: Timeout.

During device discovery, we are getting error “Failed to login, error code: 301; error description: Timeout.”We can ssh and login to devices from front server.

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Simon BNew Participant
asked in General Questions
REST API to obtain Site Properties

Looking at the REST API documentation, i can’t see the different between Get Site Info API and Get Site Properties API. They both have the same URI and paramters: GET /V1/CMDB/Sites/SiteInfo{?sitePath}|{?siteId} GET /V1/CMDB/Sites/SiteInfoQuery Parameters(*required) Name Type Description       sitePath^ string Full path name of a site. For example, 'My Network/Site1/Boston/Dev'. siteId^ string The unique id of specified site. property boolean The boolean switch to decide whether return the site detail information Note : ^ required if the other parameter is null. is the documentation correct?

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tabordlNew Participant
asked in General Questions
mongoexport device configuration files

How can I use mongoexport to download device configuration files?

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Charan0105New Participant
asked in Automation
Device hostname change - Discovery

Hello,I have a router device which is already present in netbrain. So when someone changes the device hostname in the device, would it reflect on netbrain automatically? Also added to that, if we run discovery task using an api with the device ip, does it change the updated details in netbrain? Thanks in advance  Regards,Charan Kumar N 

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Gio.GNew Participant
asked in Automation
Can you obtain raw command data (CLI, Configuration, SNMP, etc.) via Qapp script?

Hi! I was wondering if it would be possible to avoid using the typical Device Queue → For each Device → Command → Parse → DDT no-code sequence of NetBrain Qapps, and write it in code instead. I figured out how to loop through all the devices in the queue as the first two Nodes in the sequence would, but I’m a bit stuck on how to call the commands, as I’m not sure if there’s a built in API call I can use to do this or not. for row in $_device_queue.GetRows():    device = row['this']Getting raw input would be ideal. I don’t need help on the Parser bit or converting to a DDT as I’m quite familiar with regex and NetBrain’s Table API - so it’s really just the command part.My reason for the request, is that for a given device queue, I need to run a list of multiple different types of commands on each device. One command may be for getting the configuration, some are for CLI output, and some are for SNMP output, etc. I know about the loop-tables functionality, to be able to run multiple comma

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jpmackzNew Participant
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Path Calculation API advanced options object

Hello,On NetBrain-REST-API-R11/REST APIs Documentation/Path Management/Calculate Path API.md at main · NetBrainAPI/NetBrain-REST-API-R11 · GitHub, there is a section on the Request body(*required) table indicating advanced options as an object. How do we instantiate this advanced object and use its methods?advanced object advance setting. advanced.debugMode bool The debug mode of trigger API. advanced.calcWhenDeniedByACL bool Whether to keep calculate when the process been denied by ACL. advanced.calcWhenDeniedByPolicy bool Whether to keep calculate when the process been denied by policy. advanced.calcL3ActivePath bool Whether to calculate L3 active path. advanced.useCommandsWithArguments bool Whether to use the commands with arguments inside. advanced.enablePathFixup bool Whether to enable the path fixup feature.  Also, how do we save on the front gui any path calculations we have created using the API? TIA

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VerbatimNew Participant
asked in Automation
QApp: Cisco Router, Extended Ping, MTU Dont Fragment

Hello, Can a QApp ping the IP on the other end of a link with the “don’t fragment” bit set to that link’s MTU? Can this be done for every interface on the router?

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dpriorNew Participant
asked in Network Intent
New Device added to ADT, will NI update to include new device?

If I add a new device to the ADT that contains network devices, will the Network Intents Replication Update to Include new Device? Is there a way to do this?

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dpriorNew Participant
asked in Network Intent
Network Intent Replication Logic not showing for all devices in ADT

Im trying to create a ADT for compliance check when I’m replicating the intent to the ADT for some of the devices it is not showing up, from what I can see its because the parser is not grabbing any variables from the configuration, is there a way to bypass so the intent will show up even if there is nothing being parsed? 

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rroganNew Participant
asked in General Questions
Mongodb backups

I was wondering how everyone backs up their mongo database?  Are you using mongodump or 3rd party backup software?

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Charan0105New Participant
asked in Automation
API call to add devices to a domain

I am new to Netbrain and I am trying to add the device to the Netbrain through the API call. What would be the correct API call that I need to perform to add a device to netbrain. 

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PuterFellerNew Participant
asked in General Questions
Palo Alto interfaces not discovered

I’m working in an inherited Netbrain install. One pair of our Palo Alto NGFWs only show HA and management interfaces, none of the physical ethernet interfaces. This causes issues when searching paths that run through these firewalls. A path search that traverses this firewall will start with a switch directly connected to the firewall. If the next hop from the layer 3 switch is an ethernet interface/zone on the Palo Alto, Netbrain places an End System on the map. The end system’s IP address is the one assigned to the PA ethernet interface. The path ends with this “end system” (and a Path Failed message: Gateway device was not found), as there is no apparent discovered route from the source zone to the destination zone in the firewall, and then to the eventual destination. When viewing the firewall’s config in Netbrain, the physical interfaces are listed, along with the virtual router’s associated zones, corresponding interfaces and routes. +++In comparison, a different pair of Palo Alt

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