Trying to update existing assets

[stevemcgrath]

Trying to update existing assets

[Electronickss]

Here is my current functions for updating
http://pastebin.com/0RgnyyC7

We have two types of asset groups, those we use to define scans, the keys of the original json dictionary, and all of our customers within that set, which are used to group information.

Edit: Switched from my entire code to the functions themselves

[Electronickss]

After rereading through the ips_in_asset_groups example in sc5, I realized that I was not passing the id of the asset in with my patch request. When I passed in the the id of the asset I was trying to patch like this: 'asset/%s' % ident where ident is the id of the asset group, I was able to solve my issue.

My current functions look like this:

# Defining Asset Create Function
def assetCreateFunction(name, ip_list):
    sc.post('asset', json={
            'context': '',
            'createdTime': 0,
            'modifiedTime': 0,
            'canManage' : 'true',
            'type': 'static',
            'name': name,
            'definedIPs': ip_list,
            'description': name,
            'tags': name,
    }),


# Defining Asset Patch Function
def assetPatchFunction(name, ip_list, ident):
    sc.patch('asset/%s' % ident, json={
            'name': name,
            'definedIPs': ip_list,
    }),

This means I needed to configure a get request of the current assets. I built the response into a dictionary of dictionaries.

I call those functions with a try catch block, that fires if there is a KeyError (if the variable doesn't exist from the get request) it will fire the create function

Edit: Discovered after some troubleshooting that json={...} does indeed actually work better