About this utility

This CLI utility will import resources from CSV file to CloudShell server

Pre-requisites

• CloudShell 6.4 and up
• The script does not create resource families/models & the attribute associations – that should be done before running the script in Resource Manager.

How To

Installing

• Download the repository somewhere
• cd to that directory
• Run pip install --editable .

From PyPi

• pip install CSImportResources

Using the utility

Preparing the CSV file

• Either download the CSV from this repo or use the create flag to create one: `CSImportResources -c C:\temp\sample.csv
• Edit the CSV file according to the following instructions:
• The file headers must have the following 6 headers: Parent, Description, Name, ResourceFamilyName, ResourceModelName, FolderFullPath, Address
• Attributes will be added in the 7th and above.
• Root resources – should not have parent value, but should have folder value – if folder is empty the resource will be created in the main root tree.
• Sub resources – should have parent value – this value should be the full parent path – please see line No.9 in the Sample.csv file.
• Attributes – in order to associate attributes with a resource - make sure the attribute is added to the resource model In the Resource Manager application.
• In the resource line set the attribute value under the relevant attribute header, if the attribute header is missing – add it.
• Run the script – look at the console to see the results
• CSImportResource -q localhost -u admin -p admin -d Global -f c:\temp\sample.csv