Help requested for multistep ind script

IKL Development
#1

I am working on a issue where in I need to run 2 commands (multi step) to get the data I want. This is for a PAN firewall and I am using the APIs.

  1. url: /api?type=op&cmd=<show><interface>hardware</interface></show>&key=${credentials.api-key}
    1. I get the interface name, read the dynamic variable "nic" and use it later on in step 2.
    2. I also need to read the speed of that interface "speed", but I don't want to iterate on it.
  2. url: /api?type=op&cmd=<show><counter><rate>${nic}</rate></counter></show>&key=${credentials.api-key}
    1. I use dynamic("nic") to do what I need to get to.
    2. If I use dynamic("speed") it iterates on all the options, which I don't want.


Any thoughts/help on getting to iterate on dynamic variable "nic", but also read the associated speed along with it in the first step?


Thanks

Satya



#2

Hey Satya, sorry you had to wait for so long, we're a little overrun here.


First, let me just point out that you probably don't want to be using the "${credentials.api-key}" variable, but rather the "${api-key}"; the former is only used in the PAN interrogation command which verifies the api-key given by the user.


Now, as for the problem at hand, it is possible to report both metrics and dynamic variables on a single step. Meaning, in this case it is possible to simply report the NIC as a dynamic variable and the speed as a metric -- both on the first step.


I hope this helps :)