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JessieBryan
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3 months ago
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Looking for Socket Interface Wan Role and Precedence

Hello devs! I am trying to fetch interface data for our application. In doing so, I realized that I cannot locate the interface wan role # and the precedence # from CATO API. I did some digging...
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    peter
    3 months ago

    Hey JessieBryan I think you're right, I've hunted high and low and I can't find a field in the public API which maps to role. This has also been identified as a gap by some of our field engineers working with customers on automation projects, so it is known, but if you were to submit an RFE for this that would also help grease the wheels.

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peter
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3 months ago

Hi Jessie,

Yes, naturalOrder is the cunningly-disguised precedence. I have code like this in some of my own scripts to convert it back to the human-readable precedence:

			for interface in self.snapshot["devices"][0]["interfaces"]:
				if interface["name"] == if_name:
					no = interface["naturalOrder"]
					if no == 1:
						return "Active"
					elif no == 2:
						return "Passive"
					elif no == 3:
						return "Last Resort"
					elif no == 0:
						return "0"
					else:
						print(f'FATAL: {self.ID}:{self.name}:{if_name} get_role unknown naturalOrder {no}')
						sys.exit(1)

The role is also cunningly disguised as interface / info / id: