[ovirt-users] Looking for Python-SDK documentation

[Brett I. Holcomb]

On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 09:19 +0300, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Brett I. Holcomb 
> com> wrote:
> > 
> > snipped
> > 
> > One question I have as I read this.  In a hosted-engine environment how
> > do I use the SDK to tell if the Engine VM is running.  I could dump a
> > hosted-engine --vm-status and parse it's output but is there a better
> > way.  Assuming that since the host is running the Engine is does not
> > always hold true.
> > 

> 
> 
> You can simply try to connect to the api. If you succeed, the engine is up.
> 
> You can also use this url, which is what hosted-engine
> --deploy uses:
> 
> 
http://{fqdn}/ovirt-engine/services/health
> {fqdn}/ovirt-engine/services/health
> 
> Not sure why we keep using it, as it was considered deprecated at some point,
> see this:
> 
> 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026723> 
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/20846
> 
> 
> If you want more, you can write something and start from the file implementing
> --vm-status, ovirt_hosted_engine_setup/vm_status.py . It uses
> ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.client to get the data and does rather shallow massaging
> around that. Not sure ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.client is an official API, IIRC no
> other project uses it, and even if it is, it's still not part of the engine API.
> 
> Another option is to add an option to --vm-status to output machine-readable
> info. patches are welcome :-)
> 
> Best,
> 

Thanks.  I'll go with the if api connects engine running if not engine
down method.  I don't want to use a deprecated method and I'll stick
with whats part of the API. 
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