Many thanks to:
gsswzt, Luca, Andrej, Fred, Karli, Ondra and Bohdan for their replies.
A number of people mentioned the need to specify a CA cert, but curl was able to find my organizations CA locally - so that was not an issue.
Correcting my url to include ovirt-engine in the path and my username to admin@internal as suggested by Andrej as per below:
curl --user "admin@internal:SECRETPASSWORD" --request POST --header "Content-Type: application/xml" --header "Accept: application/xml" --data '</action>' https://ovirt-engine.localnet: 443/ovirt-engine/api/vms/ 69c47a91-bbv1-4eda-b71d- 7bddf82ee8ab/start
Got me a new error message:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<fault>
<detail>For correct usage, see: https://ovirt-engine.localnet/ovirt-engine/apidoc#services/ </detail>vm/methods/start
<reason>Request syntactically incorrect.</reason>
</fault>
I followed the URL, but it just seemed to repeat the information already available at http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/4.2/# services/vm/methods/start
Here is the relevant section of engine.log on ovirt-engine.localnet:
2018-05-31 10:48:15,550+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.sso.utils.AuthenticationUtils] (default task-25) [] User admin@internal successfully logged in with scopes: ovirt-app-api ovirt-ext=token-info:authz- search ovirt-ext=token-info:public- authz-search ovirt-ext=token-info:validate ovirt-ext=token:password- access
2018-05-31 10:48:15,569+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.aaa.CreateUserSessionCommand] (default task-29) [8ffa0f3] Running command: CreateUserSessionCommand internal: false.
2018-05-31 10:48:15,581+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling. AuditLogDirector] (default task-29) [8ffa0f3] EVENT_ID: USER_VDC_LOGIN(30), User admin@internal-authz connecting from '192.168.1.0' using session 'JNweIEHoHhw9U+ wMt7Z03Ovb5Pc1zR3WyvTcSfRTpdHj d55CHbcspfDcJgToMVshtlgXamzvUS W2rzHB9ApJHA==' logged in.
2018-05-31 10:48:15,587+10 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.api.restapi.resource.validation. IOExceptionMapper] (default task-29) [] IO exception while processing "POST" request for path "/vms/69c47a91-bbv1-4eda-b71d- 7bddf82ee8ab/start"
2018-05-31 10:48:15,587+10 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.api.restapi.resource.validation. IOExceptionMapper] (default task-29) [] Exception: java.io.IOException: javax.xml.stream. XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,2]
Message: The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed.
at org.ovirt.engine.api.restapi.xml.JAXBProvider.readFrom( JAXBProvider.java:200) [restapi-jaxrs.jar:]
at org.ovirt.engine.api.restapi.xml.JAXBProvider.readFrom( JAXBProvider.java:162) [restapi-jaxrs.jar:]
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.interception. AbstractReaderInterceptorConte xt.readFrom( AbstractReaderInterceptorConte xt.java:66) [resteasy-jaxrs-3.0.24.Final. jar:3.0.24.Final]
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.interception. ServerReaderInterceptorContext .readFrom( ServerReaderInterceptorContext .java:61) [resteasy-jaxrs-3.0.24.Final. jar:3.0.24.Final]
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.interception. AbstractReaderInterceptorConte xt.proceed( AbstractReaderInterceptorConte xt.java:56) [resteasy-jaxrs-3.0.24.Final. jar:3.0.24.Final]
at org.jboss.resteasy.security.doseta. DigitalVerificationInterceptor .aroundReadFrom( DigitalVerificationInterceptor .java:36) [resteasy-crypto-3.0.24.Final. jar:3.0.24.Final]
<MANY MANY LINES OF ERRORS SNIPPED>
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [rt.jar:1.8.0_171]
Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,2]
Message: The markup in the document preceding the root element must be well-formed.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl. XMLStreamReaderImpl.next( XMLStreamReaderImpl.java:604) [rt.jar:1.8.0_171]
at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller. StAXStreamConnector.bridge( StAXStreamConnector.java:164)
at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl. unmarshal0(UnmarshallerImpl. java:415)
at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl. unmarshal(UnmarshallerImpl. java:386)
at org.ovirt.engine.api.restapi.xml.JAXBProvider.readFrom( JAXBProvider.java:187) [restapi-jaxrs.jar:]
... 104 more
2018-05-31 10:48:15,593+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.aaa.LogoutSessionCommand] (default task-29) [4531c52a] Running command: LogoutSessionCommand internal: false.
2018-05-31 10:48:15,598+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling. AuditLogDirector] (default task-29) [4531c52a] EVENT_ID: USER_VDC_LOGOUT(31), User admin@internal-authz connected from '192.168.1.0' using session 'JNweIEHoHhw9U+ wMt7Z03Ovb5Pc1zR3WyvTcSfRTpdHj d55CHbcspfDcJgToMVshtlgXamzvUS W2rzHB9ApJHA==' logged out.
2018-05-31 10:48:27,542+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.sso.servlets.OAuthRevokeServlet] (default task-32) [] User admin@internal successfully logged out
2018-05-31 10:48:27,550+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.aaa. TerminateSessionsForTokenComma nd] (default task-35) [76676851] Running command: TerminateSessionsForTokenComma nd internal: true.
Later I thought that perhaps the problem was that I need to use the VM Name instead of it's UUID, since all of the examples in the official docs use something like "123" or "007". However when I changed the curl request to the below:
curl --user "admin@internal:SECRETPASSWORD" --request POST --header "Content-Type: application/xml" --header "Accept: application/xml" --data '</action>' https://ovirt-engine.localnet: 443/ovirt-engine/api/vms/name_ of_my_vm/start
I got no feedback on the commandline. So I checked engine.log, but there were only a few entries as per below:
2018-05-31 11:43:39,940+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.sso.utils.AuthenticationUtils] (default task-49) [] User admin@internal successfully logged in with scopes: ovirt-app-api ovirt-ext=token-info:authz- search ovirt-ext=token-info:public- authz-search ovirt-ext=token-info:validate ovirt-ext=token:password- access
2018-05-31 11:43:39,954+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.aaa.CreateUserSessionCommand] (default task-39) [41871d82] Running command: CreateUserSessionCommand internal: false.
2018-05-31 11:43:39,962+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling. AuditLogDirector] (default task-39) [41871d82] EVENT_ID: USER_VDC_LOGIN(30), User admin@internal-authz connecting from '192.168.1.0' using session 'EfiWrbyRpCilceYzJsgOz+E/ An7JBAHr2ASziyZyFykop9vO77gc1+ u3CQh542eNq/ BXOXpOOxKhQLQhIKarEg==' logged in.
2018-05-31 11:43:39,971+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.aaa.LogoutSessionCommand] (default task-39) [6209f488] Running command: LogoutSessionCommand internal: false.
2018-05-31 11:43:39,976+10 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling. AuditLogDirector] (default task-39) [6209f488] EVENT_ID: USER_VDC_LOGOUT(31), User admin@internal-authz connected from '192.168.1.0' using session 'EfiWrbyRpCilceYzJsgOz+E/ An7JBAHr2ASziyZyFykop9vO77gc1+ u3CQh542eNq/ BXOXpOOxKhQLQhIKarEg==' logged out.
Note that the name I specified does not show up at all.
Anyone have any ideas?On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Andrej Krejcir <akrejcir@redhat.com> wrote:Hi,the URL path is missing 'ovirt-engine', it should be:Also, the admin user name is: 'admin@internal'Here is the API documentation, for more info:AndrejOn 30 May 2018 at 08:07, Kirin van der Veer <kirin.vanderveer@planetinnovation.com.au > wrote:Hi oVirt users,I have (what I hope) is a simple problem.I want to make an https request to start a VM via the oVirt REST API.Here is the command that I think should work:curl --user "admin:SECRETPASSWORD" --request POST --header "Content-Type: application/xml" --header "Accept: application/xml" --data '</action>' https://ovirtengine.localnet:443/api/vms/69c47a91-bbv1-4eda- b71d-7bddf82ee8ab/start However I get a 404 in response (see below):<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /api/vms/60c47a91-bca1-4eda-b71d-7bddf82ee8ab/start was not found on this server.</p> </body></html>Where have I made a mistake here?
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