Yes.  The devs call it "SDK4", which has been around for a few releases now.
The CLI, however, uses SDK3, which was removed from Ovirt 4.4.
Search for "ovirt-shell".

-derek

On Fri, February 28, 2020 10:47 am, Eugène Ngontang wrote:
> @Derek,
>
> You're talking about a client the should up-port, but before having a
> client, my question is is there a documented API (server) to interact with
> through that client?
>
> Eugene NG
>
> Le jeu. 27 févr. 2020 à 14:57, Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> a écrit :
>
>> Eugene,
>>
>> On Thu, February 27, 2020 4:53 am, Eugène Ngontang wrote:
>> > Yes Ansible ovirt_vms module is useful, I use it for
>> > provisioning/deployment, but once my VM created, I'd like to
>> > administrate/interact with them, I don't think I should write
>> playbooks
>> > for
>> > that.
>> >
>> > But I'll find a solution.
>>
>> I am in a similar boat as you.  I wrote some management scripts around
>> ovirt-shell when I first started using ovirt (4.0), in order to mimic
>> some
>> vmware-server features that I needed.  I run a single-host hosted-engine
>> environment, so when the system boots up (e.g. from a power failure) I
>> wanted all my VMs to auto-start, and to start in the correct order.  I
>> can't use the ovirt power management utilities because it's only a
>> single
>> host.  So I wrote a relatively small script around ovirt-shell that
>> would
>> do the following:
>>
>> 1) Wait for the engine to respond
>> 2) Wait for the storage to come online
>> 3) Start my VMs, with appropriate order and delay between
>>    (e.g., ensure my DNS server and KDC come up before other VMs)
>>
>> I know that SOME of these features are now in Ovirt (and I think they
>> are
>> even in 4.4), but my understanding is that they only return the system
>> to
>> previous state and wont auto-start a VM that was cleanly shut down.
>> Also
>> the ordering is, IIUC, somewhat course (low/medium/high).
>>
>> At this point I plan to delay my deployment of 4.4 or beyond because
>> what
>> I have in 4.3 is working (still), and frankly I have no interest in
>> learning Ansible or Python just to replace what should be a relatively
>> simple script.
>>
>> I honestly find it very sad that the developers wont up-port
>> ovirt-client
>> to SDK4.  If SDK4 is "so good" vs SDK3 then I don't see why it would be
>> hard to do that.  And if it IS that hard to do, then how do they expect
>> us
>> to use it?
>>
>> Maybe I will find some time to play with OV4.4 on a test system in order
>> to play with the auto-start features.   In my copious amounts of free
>> time.  :(
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -derek
>>
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