Suggest next available IP and update IP record in one API call.

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Rob Starkey

• July 13, 2015 22:00

Having two calls, one for suggesting the next IP and one for updating the IP record introduces a possible race condition. We hit this today. Two admins run a script to allocate an IP in the same subnet at the same time. Both are given the same IP, one stomps on the other because /ips/ will happily update the record with the new device.

It would be helpful to have an API call that did both in a single transaction.

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  Raj Jalan

  • August 03, 2015 12:52

  Hi Rob,

  This was fixed in v7.2.0. We added an option called reserve_ip to the suggest IP API call. 

  http://blog.device42.com/2015/07/localized-language-support-and-ip-address-management-enhancements-with-v7-2-0/

  Basically, you can send "reserve_ip"="yes" when doing the suggest IP API call and it will reserve the suggested IP.

  Thanks,

  Raj

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