Add host API chokes on any folder value other than "/"

[jfaldmo (Jon Faldmo)]

I’m using the instructions here to create hosts in CheckMK Enterprise edition. Configuration via the Checkmk REST API

If I use any value other than “/” then I get the following error.
{
“title”: “Bad Request”,
“status”: 400,
“detail”: “These fields have problems: folder”,
“fields”: {
“folder”: [
“‘Windows/other’ does not match pattern ‘(?:(?:[~\\\\\\/]|(?:[~\\\\\\/][-_ a-zA-Z0-9.]+)+[~\\\\\\/]?)|[0-9a-fA-F]{32})’.”
]
}
}

Is it possible to include a folder that is not the root folder?

[andreas-doehler (Andreas)]

What happens if you use “/Windows/other/”?
The regex should match this value.

[thl-cmk]

here a little working sample. Testet with 2.1.0p21:

import json
import requests

_api_url = f'https://your.cmk.host:443/your_site/check_mk/api/1.0'
_base_header = {
    'Authorization': f'Bearer your_automation_user your_automation_secret',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}

url = f'{_api_url}/domain-types/host_config/collections/all'

data = {
    'folder': '/subfolder1/subfolder2',
    'host_name': 'your_new_host',
}

data = json.dumps(data)
response = requests.post(
    url=url,
    headers=_base_header,
    data=data,
)

[jfaldmo (Jon Faldmo)]

I get this error–

{
“title”: “Bad Request”,
“status”: 400,
“detail”: “These fields have problems: folder”,
“fields”: {
“folder”: [
“The folder ‘/Windows’ could not be found.”
]
}
}

This is the code I’m trying to use–

#!/bin/bash

HOST_NAME=“mycheckmkserver.mtnam.org”
SITE_NAME=“mysite”
API_URL=“https://$HOST_NAME/$SITE_NAME/check_mk/api/1.0”

USERNAME=“automation”
PASSWORD=“mysecret”

out=$(
curl
–insecure
–request POST
–write-out “\nxxx-status_code=%{http_code}\n”
–header “Authorization: Bearer $USERNAME $PASSWORD”
–header “Accept: application/json”
–header “Content-Type: application/json”
–data ‘{
“attributes”: {
“ipaddress”: “10.10.1.2”
},
“folder”: “/Windows”,
“host_name”: “agentserver.mtnam.org”
}’
“$API_URL/domain-types/host_config/collections/all”)

resp=$( echo “${out}” | grep -v “xxx-status_code” )
code=$( echo “${out}” | awk -F"=" ‘/^xxx-status_code/ {print $2}’)
echo “$resp” | jq

if [[ $code -lt 400 ]]; then
echo “OK”
exit 0
else
echo “Request error”
exit 1
fi

Could it be that the automation user doesn’t have access to that folder? Maybe I have that configuration wrong?

[andreas-doehler (Andreas)]

@jfaldmo

“The folder ‘/Windows’ could not be found.”

Sorry in my example i had a wrong capital W.
All the folder names are only in lower case.
The names are the same as inside the filesystem you see it.