REST Method to delete individual devices statically added to Group in NetOps Portal

Products

• CA Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

You can use REST to manipulate many functions in DX NetOps Portal. 

• You need to programmatically manage a group in DX NetOps Portal. 
• You need to delete devices from a group that were programmatically added to the group via REST and not with a rule.

There doesn't appear to be a way to remove a device in a group by it's DeviceID. How can you list all members of a group in the DX NetOps Portal?

Environment

Currently supported versions

Resolution

Yes, there is a method to use REST to add or delete items from a group.  
Items being devices/interfaces/etc, NOT subgroups or references to other groups.

Basically a POST or DELETE to

http://<NetOps Portal>:8181/pc/center/webservice/groups/groupItemId/ITEMID/items(replace ITEMID with the itemid if the device you wish to delete)

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To see all groups do a GET

http://<NetOps Portal>:8181/pc/center/webservice/groups/groupPath/All%20Groups

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curl -kv -u admin -X GET -H 'Content-type: application/xml' http://<NetOps Portal>:8181/pc/center/webservice/groups/groupPath/All%20Groups

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From the results you get:

<Group desc="" id="6362" inherit="true" name="example" type="user group"/>

Now to see a single group using the id= from the above GET

http://<NetOps Portal>:8181/pc/center/webservice/groups/groupItemId/6362/

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curl -kv -u admin -X GET -H 'Content-type: application/xml' http://<NetOps Portal>:8181/pc/center/webservice/groups/groupItemId/6362/

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To see the members of this group GET

http://<NetOps Portal>:8181/pc/center/webservice/groups/groupItemId/6362/items

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_{curl -kv -u admin -X GET -H 'Content-type: application/xml' http://<NetOps Portal>:8181/pc/center/webservice/groups/groupItemId/6362/items}

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Additional Information

• http://<NetOps Portal>:8181/pc/center/rest/groups/documentation (replace NetOps Portal with your PC hostname)
• https://<NetOps Portal>:8182/pc/center/rest/groups/documentation