Oracle OVM rest api example

If you hate the Oracle OVM CLI and having to use expect scripts you may want to look into the web services API. Note it looks like SOAP will be decommissioned soon so use REST.

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$ cat ovm_using_rest.py
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import requests
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s=requests.Session()
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s.auth=('admin','pwd_removed')
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s.verify=False #disables SSL certificate verification
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s.headers.update({'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
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baseUri='https://ovmm:7002/ovm/core/wsapi/rest'
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print "\nServer List:"
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print "##############"
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r=s.get(baseUri+'/Server')
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for i in r.json():
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  # do something with the content
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  print '{:20} {:20}'.format(i['serverRunState'],i['name'])
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print "\nVM List:"
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print "########"
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r=s.get(baseUri+'/Vm')
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for i in r.json():
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  # do something with the content
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  print '{:20} {:20}'.format(i['vmRunState'],i['name'])
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  #print '{name} '.format(name=i['name'])

Output:

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$ python ovm_using_rest.py
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Server List:
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##############
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/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:794: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html
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  InsecureRequestWarning)
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RUNNING              ovms2
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RUNNING              ovms3
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RUNNING              ovms1
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VM List:
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########
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TEMPLATE             EXALYTICS_BASE_LINUX_OEL5_GUEST_VM_TEMPLATE_2.2.0.0.0.el5
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TEMPLATE             EXALYTICS_BASE_LINUX_OEL6_GUEST_VM_TEMPLATE_2.2.0.0.0.el6
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RUNNING              OBIEXA3
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STOPPED              obiexa4
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[..]
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STOPPED              EXALYTICS_BASE_LINUX_OEL5_GUEST_VM_TEMPLATE_2.0.1.4.0
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TEMPLATE             OBIEE12C_TEMPLATE.0
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RUNNING              OBIEXA01