Bulk creation of folders, rules and hosts

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• 04 Apr, '24
  Mohamed Saleh Admin

  Dear Markus,
  Thank you for posting your idea on our portal!
  To help us better understand, could you provide more details about your use case or a sample of the list, for example is it a single list or a list for each object type.
  Warm regards,
  Your Checkmk team

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• 05 Apr, '24
  Markus

  For the folder I suggest something like this
  
  {
  "name": "[production,integration,test]",
  "title": "[Production Hosts,Integration Hosts,Test Hosts]",
  "parent": "/",
  "attributes": {
  "tag_criticality": "[prod,int,test]"
  }
  }

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• 08 Apr, '24
  Mohamed Saleh Admin

  Thanks Markus,
  You also mentioned bulk actions for rules. Could you provide more details about your use case here?

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• 12 Apr, '24
  Markus

  I would like to have the possbility to post at once several "value_raw".
  
  "value_raw[0]":
  "value_raw[1]":

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• 17 Apr, '24
  Mohamed Saleh Admin

  Hi Markus,
  Thanks for the feedback.
  We are curious about your use case for this idea. Do you want to recreate your setup because e.g., you are deploying a new site and want to keep everything the same? We also would like to know more about the business problem you want to solve with having the ability to do bulk action, e.g., is it to make the process faster?

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• 13 May, '24
  Markus

  Actually we rebuild our servers once a day. The idea behind is to do nothing at all by hand .
  
  Yes it would make the deployment faster if we were able to send several similar commands with one single command.

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• 15 May, '24
  Niklas Pulina Admin

  Hi Markus,
  
  Thank you for your feedback. Do I understand you correctly in a sense that you rebuild your complete monitoring server every day—together with all its hosts, rules, etc.?
  
  If so, could you please elaborate on the reason for this? That would help us understand your use case.
  
  Many thanks in advance!
  
  Best, Niklas

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• 17 May, '24
  Jodok

  I believe https://exchange.checkmk.com/p/fileconnector can fulfill this request already.

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• 08 Jun, '24
  Andy

  I dont see a big use-case for this. Creating folders using the Rest-API does not take long, it would only take long time if each host would be in its own folder.
  
  We use the bulk function to create multiple hosts, we create 500 hosts in each bulk, it takes around 10 minutes to create 20.000 hosts.

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• 12 May, '25
  Markus

  In our case folder creation takes about ten minutes. Whereas the bulk host creation (that is already possible) is a matter of seconds.
  So for now adding folders would be helpful.

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