Add a Device Group
post
/{versionId}/inventory/deviceMgmt/deviceGroups
Add a device group to Device Manager. A device group is a containment group that can contain other device groups or devices maintained in Network Functions (NFs).
Request
Path Parameters
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Response
200 Response
400 Response
The user input is invalid.
401 Response
The session ID is invalid.
404 Response
The object (resource URI, device, and so on) of your input request cannot be found.
Examples
Examples of Accessing the API
See Authenticate for how to acquire a session cookie.
The following example shows how to add a device group using curl.
curl -X POST \
-b sessionid.txt \
--header "Accept: application/xml" \
--header "Content-Type: application/xml" \
"https://example.com:8443/rest/v1.3/inventory/deviceMgmt/deviceGroups"The following example shows how to add a device group using Python.
import requests
from lxml import etree
url = "https://example.com:8443/rest/v1.3/inventory/deviceMgmt/deviceGroups"
headers = { "Accept":"application/xml", "Content-Type: application/xml", "Cookie":cookie }
data = etree.tostring(etree.parse("request.json"))
resp = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)Example of the Request Body
The following example shows the contents of the request body in XML.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<deviceGroup>
<name>Devgrp</name>
</deviceGroup>The following example shows the contents of the request body in JSON.
{
"name": "Devgrp"
}Example of the Response Body
The following example shows the contents of the response body in XML.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<deviceGroup>
<fullName>Devgrp</fullName>
<id>ID7</id>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
<name>Devgrp</name>
<parentGroupId>ID0</parentGroupId>
</deviceGroup>The following example shows the contents of the response body in JSON.
{
"fullName": "Devgrp",
"id": "ID5",
"isHidden": "false",
"name": "Devgrp",
"parentGroupId": "ID0"
}