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WillFulmer's avatar
WillFulmer
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8 years ago

Bulk rename/append name of devices

I have opened a support ticket - #94980. I would like to request the ability to group rename or modify the naming of devices. Specifically, I want to add all devices under 'Client A' and appe...
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Cole_McDonald's avatar
Cole_McDonald
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6 years ago

I'm working on a similar project (system names came in as IP addresses as we didn't have all of our reverse lookups populated in DNS.  I'm a powershell person, so I have to construct my JSON manually.  While I was working on my Failover Cluster Grouping script, I used this JSON structure for a PUT procedure to create a new custom property: 

{
  "type"  : "custom",
  "name"  : "Failover.Cluster.GUID",
  "value" : "$ClusterID"
}

What type should be used to access the system properties?

Would the method be PUT or PATCH? I can try them both, but it would save a couple of minutes (and I'm lazy).

Specifically, I need to alter name, system.displayname, and system.hostname (I'm filling with the value of ##system.sysname## which came in correctly during the initial discovery.