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Status Future consideration
Workspace SevOne
Categories Network Management System (NMS)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 17, 2024

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Device Type Classification in SevOne REST API

My team owns IBM CP4AIOPS ASM observer that responsible for resource topology discovery. We do have an integration with SevOne, called SevOne Observer. At the moment. I have a request from StarHub and EastLink on the capability for AIOPs to classify the device type, ie. host, routers and switches like how SevOne GUI able to classify the discovered devices. At the moment, there is no API that able to provide observer the information. What we have is an API that list all the supported devive type by SevOne, not the discovered devices. We can't use that API as there is no correlation between the discovered devices and its device type.

We were looking at API sample for but looking at the responsefor /api/v3/devicetypes/filter, we don't get the deviceType. I am not sure how to translate the  "deviceTypeId": "3258906253983744", (if this is the right one). I cant find the API to translate deviceTypeId.

{
2  "deviceTypeCount": "senve",
3  "deviceTypes": [
4    {
5      "children": {
6        "circular_reference": "#/definitions/sevone.api.v3.DeviceTypesFilterResponse.DeviceTypeInfo"
7      },
8      "deviceCount": "maetoviwuwovovoz",
9      "deviceTypeId": "3258906253983744",
10      "deviceTypeName": "Chris Holloway",
11      "deviceTypeParentId": "3668232317698048"
12    }
13  ]
14}

FYI, we also tried with our SevOne instance (v6.2.0 & API version 2.20.0.) provided by SevOne team but is not available in the Swagger. All we get is a bad response.  

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Matt Sweet
    Reply
    |     Apr 18, 2024

    If you have setup the classifications yourself, the heirarchy should be returned in your API response. In my example above, the parent type is "Generic" however in your case it may be "Switch" or "Router" if you've set it up that way.

  • Admin
    Matt Sweet
    Reply
    |     Apr 18, 2024

    Unfortunately we do not classify devices at this time in that manner automatically. This is something we are looking to improve though, so I'm going to take your need into consideration as we prioritize and design the solution. Thanks for the clarification!

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 18, 2024

    Hi Matt,

    Thank you for the prompt response. I have two questions:

    a) Referring to your response sample, I don't see the expected classification ie. host, router or switch.
    b) Is there any specific version that has this API? As I wrote in the description above, the SevOne instance that we are currently using is v6.2.0 and API version 2.20.0. We don't see this API in the Swagger page -> https://sevone.tivlab.raleigh.ibm.com/api/v3/docs#/. When we tried the API, all we get is a "bad request" response. Do you have an instance that we can play around?


  • Admin
    Matt Sweet
    Reply
    |     Apr 17, 2024

    Hello Ariff,

    You should be using /api/v3/devicetypes/filter, given a device id or device name this endpoint will return all device types that device is a member of. Be sure to descend into the children as our device types are hierarchical. You can get both the device type name and ID here. Let me know if you have any questions.

    Here is a response from one of my test systems:

    {

      "deviceTypes": [

        {

          "deviceTypeId": "42",

          "deviceTypeName": "All Device Types",

          "deviceTypeParentId": "1",

          "deviceCount": "1",

          "children": [

            {

              "deviceTypeId": "43",

              "deviceTypeName": "Generic",

              "deviceTypeParentId": "42",

              "deviceCount": "1",

              "children": [

                {

                  "deviceTypeId": "44",

                  "deviceTypeName": "Cisco IOS",

                  "deviceTypeParentId": "43",

                  "deviceCount": "1",

                  "children": []

                }

              ]

            }

          ]

        }

      ],

      "deviceTypeCount": "3"

    }

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