addSocketSite Location lookup incomplete

BrianT

Trying to add sites to tenant via API

Using addSocketSite in Postman.

Fails, reporting: {"errors":[{"message":"timezone [US/Pacific] is unknown","path":["site","addSocketSite","input","siteLocation","timezone"]}],"data":{"site":{"addSocketSite":null}}}

Inspecting the results of the lookup, I can see that UA has three timezones

When you lookup US there is only one timezone.

If I am importing 15 sites only the sites in Mountain timezone succeed.

 

Is this a production tool or method?

Brian-Anderson

Hi,

The topic of resolving the siteLocation has been something we have been working to make more simple, as using the apis directly can be a bit cumbersome to get the specific data you are looking for all in one payload.  There are a few ways we can address that in a more simple way.

1. use the catocli (public pip package) to run a single command to resolve these fields.
   Example in a terminal:
   $ pip3 install catocli
   $ export CATO_TOKEN="your-api-token-here"
   $ export CATO_ACCOUNT_ID="your-account-id"
   $ catocli query siteLocation -h
   $ catocli query siteLocation '{"filters":[{"search": "San Diego","field":"city","operation":"exact"}]}' -p
2. Use a terraform data source
   https://registry.terraform.io/providers/catonetworks/cato/latest/docs/data-sources/siteLocation
3. Ingest the json data directly in your code as a local lookup
   https://github.com/catonetworks/cato-cli/blob/main/models/query.siteLocation.json