[ovirt-users] API: detailed quota information, where's it at?

Tim Bielawa tbielawa at redhat.com
Thu Feb 4 20:36:58 UTC 2016


In case anyone else out there is reading this looking for the answer, after
rooting around on IRC I've found out that the feature I described is
available in upcoming 3.6 release.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Tim Bielawa <tbielawa at redhat.com> wrote:

> I've been able to run the simple commands to enumerate quotas in a
> datacenter, and to select a quota by name.
>
> What I can not figure out how to do is how to receive detailed information
> about a quota from the API.
>
> Here's how I queried the basic information (using the python ovirtsdk
> module):
>
> import ovirtsdk.api
>> api = ovirtsdk.api.API(url=url, username=name, password=password, ...)
>> datacenter = api.datacenters.get(name="my-data-center")
>> team_quota = datacenter.quotas.get(name="my-teams-quota")
>
>
> Which works well enough, but doesn't really provide any actual *valuable*
> information (just the name, id, description, that kind of stuff).
>
> So where is the useful stuff hidden? The stuff of real value? I have not
> found any useful resources while scouring the Internet for this answer.
>
>
> I want to be able to hit this API and ask for detailed information about
> the usage of a quota: How much capacity is my team allotted on a given
> storage domain? How much capacity are we presently consuming? Likewise with
> CPU/Memory allocation type quotas.
>
> Is this possible, or a pipe dream?
>
>
> Environment:
>
> RHEVM Version: 3.5.6.0-1
> Python SDK Version: 3.5.6.0-1
>
>
> Thanks again folks!
>
>
> --
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