https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-articles/nominated-discussion-using-the-rest-api-to-create-a-bunch-of/ta-p/1226546 <P>This Nominated Discussion Article is based on the post "<A id="link_2_5158dada1b65d3_113455" class="page-link lia-link-navigation lia-custom-event" href="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/using-the-rest-api-to-create-a-bunch-of-address-objects/m-p/585793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Using the REST API to create a bunch of Address Objects</A>" by&nbsp;<a href="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/137282">@DaveFitz</a>&nbsp; and responded to by <a href="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/77347">@TomYoung</a>&nbsp;. Read on to see the discussion and solution!</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <DIV class="lia-message-template-content-zone"> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I have to create a large number Address Objects and would like to use the REST API to do so.&nbsp; I've seen a number of examples at adding various things, but I'm running into an issue with these specific shared objects.&nbsp; The all live in a device group called Global.</P> <P>If I do a GET, I see that an object will look as follows</P> <LI-CODE lang="python">{"@name":"net-vl730-boise", "@location":"shared", "ip-netmask":"10.21.45.0\/24", "description":"Boise VTC Network"}</LI-CODE> <P>Am I correct in assuming that when interacting with an object, a field with a leading&nbsp;@ is a required field?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I basically want to have code that creates ~100 more of these.&nbsp; To that end, I have a code snippet that looks as follows:</P> <LI-CODE lang="python">headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-PAN-KEY': api_key } name = "net-vl720-miami" ip_netmask = "10.22.104.0\/22" payload = json.dumps({ "entry":{ "@location":"shared", "@name":"net-vl720-miami", "ip-netmask":"10.21.46.0\/24", "description":"Miami Voice Network" } }) url = "https://panorama_ip/restapi/v10.1/Objects/Addresses" try: r1 = requests.request("POST",url, headers=headers, data=payload, verify=False) except: print(r1.text)</LI-CODE> <P>When I run the code as is, the response I get is:</P> <LI-CODE lang="python">'{"code":3,"message":"Missing Query Parameter: location","details":[{"@type":"CauseInfo","causes":[{"code":7,"module":"pan_api","description":"Missing Query Parameter: location"}]}]}'</LI-CODE> <P>If I alter the URL to include the location, as so:</P> <LI-CODE lang="python">url = "https://w0t809-pan-mgmt.mitre.org/restapi/v10.1/Objects/Addresses?location=shared"</LI-CODE> <P>The description part of the response becomes:</P> <LI-CODE lang="python">"description":"Missing Query Parameter: name"</LI-CODE> <P>So for starters, I'm not sure what belongs in the URL, and what belongs in the payload, as some of the data seems to be duplicated.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>If I add the name to the URL:</P> <LI-CODE lang="python">url = "https://w0t809-pan-mgmt.mitre.org/restapi/v10.1/Objects/Addresses?location=shared&amp;name=" + name</LI-CODE> <P>The response changes to</P> <LI-CODE lang="python">"description":"Invalid Object: Edit breaks config validity."</LI-CODE> <P><BR />&nbsp;Can anybody share what I'm doing wrong?&nbsp; I'm sure I'm not the first person to attempt this.</P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>This is what worked for me in Postman.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <LI-CODE lang="markup">URL = https://{{hostname}}.{{domain}}.com/restapi/v10.2/Objects/Addresses?location=shared&amp;name=Test-1-2-3</LI-CODE><LI-CODE lang="markup">Body = { "entry": [ { "@location": "shared", "@name": "Test-1-2-3", "ip-netmask": "10.21.46.0/24", "tag": { "member": [ "API" ] }, "description": "Miami Voice Network" } ] }</LI-CODE><LI-CODE lang="markup">Response = { "@status": "success", "@code": "20", "msg": "command succeeded" }</LI-CODE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The name needs to be in the URL according to this example:&nbsp; <A href="https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-panorama-api/get-started-with-the-pan-os-rest-api/work-with-address-objects-rest-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-panorama-api/get-started-with-the-pan-os-rest-api/work-with-address-objects-rest-api</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>My "API" tag already existed.&nbsp; Here is the newly created object in the Panorama GUI:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="TomYoung_0-1715017580446.png" style="width: 1067px;"><img src="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59534iD264750C555B6850/image-dimensions/1067x96?v=v2" width="1067" height="96" role="button" title="TomYoung_0-1715017580446.png" alt="TomYoung_0-1715017580446.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:27:46 GMT kiwi 2025-04-15T23:27:46Z https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-articles/nominated-discussion-using-the-rest-api-to-create-a-bunch-of/ta-p/1226546 <P>This Nominated Discussion Article is based on the post "<A id="link_2_5158dada1b65d3_113455" class="page-link lia-link-navigation lia-custom-event" href="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/using-the-rest-api-to-create-a-bunch-of-address-objects/m-p/585793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Using the REST API to create a bunch of Address Objects</A>" by&nbsp;<a href="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/137282">@DaveFitz</a>&nbsp; and responded to by <a href="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/77347">@TomYoung</a>&nbsp;. Read on to see the discussion and solution!</P> Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:27:46 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-articles/nominated-discussion-using-the-rest-api-to-create-a-bunch-of/ta-p/1226546 kiwi 2025-04-15T23:27:46Z