Pynetbox call isn't creating devices, but can return all devices

[cmc]

Having a bit of hassle creating virtual machines using pynetbox. I can connect to it and return devices through this script

import pynetbox

vm_name='vm1'

nb = pynetbox.api('http://my-netbox-instance.com', token='my-token')

print(nb.virtualization.virtual_machines.all())

nb.virtualization.virtual_machines.create(name='TestVM',cluster='Generic')

quit()

This returns 

['vm1', 'vm2', 'vm3']

But is doesn't create the virtual machine 'TestVM'. Am I missing something here with my syntax?

[zmo...@digitalocean.com]

You'll need to reference cluster by its id instead of name. You should also get back a RequestError exception that you can catch and use to get more details about the error. Feel free to open up an item on pynetbox's issue tracker for stuff like this since it doesn't have its own mailing list.

[cmc]

Thanks! That's why I wasn't seeing any return then. Is there anywhere in the documentation I can look at for assigning a new IP/interfaces to a new VM?

[cmc]

A simpler one even, I'm trying to create a new VM with 

import pynetbox

from config import *

vm_name='vmtest'

nb = pynetbox.api(NETBOX_URL, token=NETBOX_TOKEN)

nb.virtualization.virtual_machines.create(name=vm_name,status=1,cluster='12',address='173.3.3.1')

It creates the vm, but doesn't give it an IP address and doesn't throw any error. Am I missing syntax somewhere here?

[Brian Candler]

I'm not an API user but I believe it's a three-step process:

1. Create the VM
2. Create an interface and associate it to the VM (using the VM id)
3. Create an IP address and associate it with the interface (using the interface id)

[cmc]

Got those steps up and running, but can't assign an IP to the VM without the IP ID. Is there a reason 

nb.ipam.ip_addresses(address='111.111.111.111/32').id

doesn't return the IP ID?

[Brian Candler]

Don't you get the id as part of the return value when creating the IP?

[cmc]

Yeah just figured out you can get it as part of the device dictionary with ['id'] when creating it