Allocation6

Audit2

BMC Credential1

Credential Rotation2

Domain6

DPU Extension Service7

DPU Machine2

Expected Machine11

Expected Power Shelf7

Expected Rack8

Expected Rack Group8

Expected Switch7

Host Firmware Config2

InfiniBand Partition6

Infrastructure Provider2

Instance10

Instance Type8

IP Block6

iPXE Template2

Machine25

Measured Boot Trusted Machine3

Measured Boot Trusted Profile3

Metadata1

Network Security Group5

NVLink Logical Partition6

Operating System5

Rack14

Rule5

Service Account1

Site6

Site Explorer2

SKU5

SpectrumX Partition4

SSH Key5

SSH Key Group5

Subnet5

Task3

Task Run8

Tenant4

Tenant Account5

Tenant Identity10

Tray12

UEFI Credential1

User1

VPC9

VPC Peering4

VPC Prefix5

Expected Machine

Batch Create Expected Machines

Changed on Oct 20, 2026

Create multiple Expected Machines in a single request. All machines must belong to the same site.

Org must have an Infrastructure Provider entity. User must have authorization role with PROVIDER_ADMIN suffix.

Alternatively, Tenant Admins with TargetedInstanceCreation capability can also create Expected Machines if they have an account with the Site's Infrastructure Provider.

Maximum batch size: 100 Expected Machines per request.

post/v2/org/{org}/nico/expected-machine/batch

Request

Base URL
https://nico-rest-api.nico.svc.cluster.local
URL
https://nico-rest-api.nico.svc.cluster.local/v2/org/{org}/nico/expected-machine/batch
Auth
HTTP bearer

Request body

siteIdstring uuid required

ID of the site the Expected Machine belongs to

bmcMacAddressstring required

MAC address of the Expected Machine's BMC (Baseboard Management Controller)

defaultBmcUsernamestring nullable

Username for accessing the Expected Machine's BMC

defaultBmcPasswordstring nullable

Password for accessing the Expected Machine's BMC

chassisSerialNumberstring required

Serial number of the Expected Machine's chassis

fallbackDPUSerialNumbersstring[] nullable

Serial numbers of the Expected Machine's fallback DPUs (Data Processing Units)

skuIdstring nullable

Optional ID of an existing SKU at this Expected Machine's Site. Omission or null leaves the SKU association unset. REST rejects an empty string with HTTP 400.

rackIdstring nullable

Optional rack identifier for this component

bmcIpAddressstring nullable

Optional BMC IP address (IPv4 or IPv6). When set, pre-allocates a reserved IP for the BMC. It must not be unspecified, multicast, or IPv4 limited broadcast.

namestring nullable

Display name for this component

manufacturerstring nullable

Manufacturer of this component

modelstring nullable

Model of this component

descriptionstring nullable

Description of this component

serverNamestring nullable

Optional server name advertised to connected switches in LLDP responses and used for cable validation.

slotIdinteger nullable

Slot ID within the rack

trayIdxinteger nullable

Tray index within the rack

hostIdinteger nullable

Host ID within the tray

isDpfEnabledboolean nullable

When true, this host is eligible for DPF-based provisioning. Optional. Omission or null uses an effective default of true. Set false explicitly to disable DPF-based provisioning.

labelsLabels

Label keys must not be empty or whitespace-only. Keys and values may contain at most 255 characters and must not contain the Unicode NUL character (U+0000). Empty values are allowed.

Example request

[
  {
    "siteId": "f97df110-f4de-492e-8849-4a6af68026b0",
    "bmcMacAddress": "00:1A:2B:3C:4D:5E",
    "bmcIpAddress": "192.168.1.100",
    "defaultBmcUsername": "admin",
    "defaultBmcPassword": "password123",
    "chassisSerialNumber": "CHASSIS-12345",
    "fallbackDPUSerialNumbers": [
      "DPU-001",
      "DPU-002"
    ],
    "interfaces": [
      {
        "identifier": {
          "macAddress": "02:00:00:00:00:10"
        },
        "nicType": "CX9",
        "fixedIp": "192.0.2.10"
      },
      {
        "identifier": {
          "astra": {
            "physicalName": "C1-1-L1",
            "logicalName": "eth_r0_p0"
          }
        },
        "nicType": "CX9",
        "fixedIp": "192.0.2.11"
      }
    ],
    "skuId": "lenovo.sr650v2.cpu.1",
    "rackId": "rack-01",
    "isDpfEnabled": true,
    "manufacturer": "Lenovo",
    "labels": {
      "environment": "production",
      "rack": "A1"
    }
  }
]

Response

Created

idstring uuid

Unique identifier for the Expected Machine

siteIdstring uuid

ID of the site the Expected Machine belongs to

bmcMacAddressstring

MAC address of the Expected Machine's BMC (Baseboard Management Controller)

chassisSerialNumberstring

Serial number of the Expected Machine's chassis

fallbackDPUSerialNumbersstring[]

Serial numbers of the Expected Machine's fallback DPUs (Data Processing Units)

skuIdstring nullable

Stored SKU ID for this Expected Machine, or null when no association is stored. The ID can belong to another Site, including when inventory synchronization imports an entry configured directly in Core.

machineIdstring nullable

Stored Machine ID for this Expected Machine, or null when no association is stored. The ID can belong to another Site.