Re: [ovirt-users] Unable to rename disks via REST API

On 06/28/2017 12:55 PM, Bruno Rodriguez wrote: > I'm sorry about bothering you again, but after trying it some times I'm > still getting a "500 Internal Server Error". I'm using a REST client > instead of CURL and I tried adding a "Version: 3" to headers and used > the URL with the v3 as well. > > I'm issuing a PUT of > > <disk><alias>Alias_for_disk</alias></disk> > > To the URL > > https://myserver/ovirt-engine/api/v3/vms/62498f51-0203-48b9- 83c8-4c6f3bdfe05c/disks/583ed952-46a8-4bc5-8a27-8660e4a24ea2 > > I mean, I can live without it but we are using oVirt as a "static > virtualization" environment and is quite useful for us being able to > recognize easily each disk by its server name. In case I have to wait > until the 4.2 API version to automatize this I'll do :( > That should work. Can you please check if you get any useful message in /var/log/ovirt-engine/server.log or /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log? > > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Bruno Rodriguez <bruno(a)pic.es > <mailto:bruno@pic.es>> wrote: > > Thank you very much !!! > > I expected I was missing something like that. Thanks again! > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Juan Hernández > <jhernand(a)redhat.com <mailto:jhernand@redhat.com>> wrote: > > On 06/28/2017 10:43 AM, Bruno Rodriguez wrote: > > Thank you, Daniel > > > > I tried a PUT with the same XML body, I got a "405 Method Not Allowed". > > It's quite strange, there must be someting I'm missing > > > > The operation to update a disk will be introduced in version 4 > of the > API with version 4.2 of the engine. Meanwhile the way to update > the disk > is to use version 3 of the API and the disks sub-collection of the > virtual machine. That means that if you have a VM with id 123 > and a disk > with id 456 you can send a request like this: > > PUT /ovirt-engine/api/v3/vms/123/disks/456 > > With a request body like this: > > <disk> > <alias>newalias</alias> > </disk> > > Note that you can use the above "v3" prefix in the URL or else the > "Version: 3" header. A complete example using curl: > > ---8<--- > #!/bin/bash -ex > > url="https://.../ovirt-engine/api" > user="admin@internal" > password="..." > vm_id="..." > disk_id="..." > > curl \ > --verbose \ > --cacert "ca.pem" \ > --header "Version: 3" \ > --header "Content-Type: application/xml" \ > --user "${user}:${password}" \ > --request PUT \ > --data " > <disk> > <alias>newalias</alias> > </disk> > " \ > "${url}/vms/${vm_id}/disks/${disk_id}" > --->8--- > > > > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Daniel Erez < derez(a)redhat.com <mailto:derez@redhat.com> > > <mailto:derez@redhat.com <mailto:derez@redhat.com>>> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Updating is done using the PUT method. > > Please try that with the same XML body. > > > > Thanks, > > Daniel > > > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:26 AM Bruno Rodriguez < bruno(a)pic.es <mailto:bruno@pic.es> > > <mailto:bruno@pic.es <mailto:bruno@pic.es>>> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm having some problems about renaming some disks (setting a > > different alias, name or description) for VMs disks created from > > a template. When I get this URL > > > > https://ovirt-manager/ovirt-engine/api/disks/0123 > <https://ovirt-manager/ovirt-engine/api/disks/0123> > > <https://ovirt-manager/ovirt-engine/api/disks/0123 > <https://ovirt-manager/ovirt-engine/api/disks/0123>> > > > > I can see are the methods sparsify, export, move and copy. I > > tried to POST the following XML to the previous URL with no > > result (as expected, it won't work) > > > > <disk> > > <alias>my_machine_Disk1</alias> > > </disk> > > > > I'm quite sure I'm thinking about it in a wrong way (as usual). > > Any help would be welcome... > > > > Thank you in advance > > > > -- > > Bruno Rodríguez Rodríguez > > > > *Port d'Informació Científica (PIC)* > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> > <mailto:Users@ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org>> > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > > <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users>> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Bruno Rodríguez Rodríguez > > > > *Port d'Informació Científica (PIC)* > > Campus UAB - Edificio D, > > C / Albareda, s / n > > 08193-Bellaterra (Barcelona), España > > Telf. +34 93 170 27 30 <tel:%2B34%2093%20170%2027%2030> > > GPS coordenadas: 41.500850 2.110628 > > > > "Si algo me ha enseñado el tetris, es que los errores se acumulan y los > > triunfos desaparecen" > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > > > > > > > -- > Bruno Rodríguez Rodríguez > > *Port d'Informació Científica (PIC)* > Campus UAB - Edificio D, > C / Albareda, s / n > 08193-Bellaterra (Barcelona), España > Telf. +34 93 170 27 30 > GPS coordenadas: 41.500850 2.110628 > > "Si algo me ha enseñado el tetris, es que los errores se acumulan y > los triunfos desaparecen" > > > > > -- > Bruno Rodríguez Rodríguez > > *Port d'Informació Científica (PIC)* > Campus UAB - Edificio D, > C / Albareda, s / n > 08193-Bellaterra (Barcelona), España > Telf. +34 93 170 27 30 > GPS coordenadas: 41.500850 2.110628 > > "Si algo me ha enseñado el tetris, es que los errores se acumulan y los > triunfos desaparecen"