POST call to create switch profiles on config tempaltes

[RaresPauna]

Hello, I am facing a task that needs to copy some switch profiles from a config template to an other one. 
Unfortunately, I see no support for creating/cloning switch profiles using the API. I am missing something ? All i see is an update option of the profile ports, put only after the profile already exists

[Adrian4]

dont think you're missing anything - I can't find anything either.

[RaresPauna]

hopefully next api versions will implement it

[PhilipDAth]

I think you know what you have to do to solve this problem ... you are just hoping for an easier solution.  🙂

[RaresPauna]

It's not about an easier solution. It's about automating a manual task, where network engineers have to manually create switch profiles from the dashboard. Or do you have another way to solve my problem ?

[PhilipDAth]

Queries the list of switch profiles.  Query the port configuration for each profile.  Then add the profile to the new template, and configure the ports.

[Alisdair85]

There is unfortunately no Switch Profile creation endpoint, I have been asking for it for a few years as we have 100s/1000s that need creating in a disaster recovery scenario of many Configuration Templates, currently we have a semi-automated task to do this for our NOC DR Team, frustratingly once the Switch Profile is manually created everything thereafter is fully automated, i.e. setting switchports for all thier details as well as the autobind to the MS Switches, etc

[AlexG]

Maybe @John_on_API can answer as he's been the face of the API release updates as of late. Any word on the addition of the API endpoint for switch profile creation? For those of us with cookie-cutter networks, it's a real bummer that isn't available.

[John_on_API]

I might post in the Switch forum for a more specific answer. I think port profiles (not switch profiles) are more flexible in most cases.

[AlexG]

In our specific use-case, flexibility is not what we want. I've got customers who are capable enough to claim new devices to a network and add those to a template, but not savvy enough to know how to configure switch ports. Ideally, I'd preload a combined template in their Org with the 'golden' config in which they'd create new networks from. I can't add that combined golden config template for tens or hundreds of customers right now without this silly manual step of creating a switch profile.