Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt api function

Hi Juan, Thanks for your replies.. Regarding the rebuild VM, Is that any method to reinstall the os on the VM without remove it or create a new one?

-- Regards Shanil On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Juan Hernandez <jhernand(a)redhat.com <mailto:jhernand@redhat.com>> wrote: On 08/20/2014 12:42 PM, Shanil S wrote: > Hi, > > > I would like to create the following functions using the ovirt api > > 1. Rebuild VM What do you exactly mean by "rebuild vm"? > 2. Restore the screenthots of one vm to another vm What you can do is create a new VM from an existing snapshot, something like this: #!/bin/sh -ex url="https://ovirt.example.com/ovirt-engine/api" user="admin@internal" password="******" curl \ --verbose \ --insecure \ --request POST \ --header "Accept: application/xml" \ --header "Content-Type: application/xml" \ --user "${user}:${password}" \ --data " <vm> <name>myclone</name> <cluster id='00000001-0001-0001-0001-000000000171'/> <snapshots> <snapshot id='f09a98fd-2c7e-40eb-a9ae-6b7f86412bb0'/> </snapshots> </vm> " \ "${url}/vms" You need to modify that script with your URL, user name, password, cluster and snapshot id. > 3. Display cpu,network etc usages > The statistics are available in the "statistics" sub-resource. For example, if you want to get the statistics of a host you can do the following: #!/bin/sh -ex url="https://ovirt.example.com/ovirt-engine/api" user="admin@internal" password="******" curl \ --verbose \ --insecure \ --request GET \ --header "Accept: application/xml" \ --user "${user}:${password}" \ "${url}/hosts/40cc4c33-2560-4516-b028-1d59638139c3/statistics" There you will find different statistics, like "memory.total", "memory.used", etc. Take a look. Once you know what statistic you want you can get its details like this: curl \ --verbose \ --insecure \ --request GET \ --header "Accept: application/xml" \ --user "${user}:${password}" \ "${url}/hosts/40cc4c33-2560-4516-b028-1d59638139c3/statistics/7816602b-c05c-3db7-a4da-3769f7ad8896" This can be cumbersome to do with a shell script, so you may want to use the Python or Java SDKs, or just use directly the ovirt-shell: $ ovirt-shell --insecure URL: https://ovirt.example.com/ovirt-engine/api Username: admin@internal Password: ****** [oVirt shell (connected)]# show statistic memory.total --host-identifier myhost id : 7816602b-c05c-3db7-a4da-3769f7ad8896 name : memory.total description : Total memory host-id : 40cc4c33-2560-4516-b028-1d59638139c3 type : GAUGE unit : BYTES values-type : INTEGER values-value-datum: 2099249152 > I couldn't find out any direct api method to do the above, Is it > possible to do these operations using api ? If anyone knows it please > help me to sort out it. > > > > -- > Regards > Shanil