Oracle OVM rest api example

January 5, 2017 admin

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.

$ cat ovm_using_rest.py 
import requests

s=requests.Session()
s.auth=('admin','pwd_removed')
s.verify=False #disables SSL certificate verification

s.headers.update({'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'})

baseUri='https://ovmm:7002/ovm/core/wsapi/rest'

print "\nServer List:"
print "##############"
r=s.get(baseUri+'/Server')
for i in r.json():
  # do something with the content
  print '{:20} {:20}'.format(i['serverRunState'],i['name'])

print "\nVM List:"
print "########"
r=s.get(baseUri+'/Vm')
for i in r.json():
  # do something with the content
  print '{:20} {:20}'.format(i['vmRunState'],i['name'])
  #print '{name} '.format(name=i['name'])

Output:

$ python ovm_using_rest.py 

Server List:
##############
/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
  InsecureRequestWarning)
RUNNING              ovms2            
RUNNING              ovms3             
RUNNING              ovms1             

VM List:
########
TEMPLATE             EXALYTICS_BASE_LINUX_OEL5_GUEST_VM_TEMPLATE_2.2.0.0.0.el5
TEMPLATE             EXALYTICS_BASE_LINUX_OEL6_GUEST_VM_TEMPLATE_2.2.0.0.0.el6
RUNNING              OBIEXA3           
STOPPED              obiexa4           
[..]
STOPPED              EXALYTICS_BASE_LINUX_OEL5_GUEST_VM_TEMPLATE_2.0.1.4.0
TEMPLATE             OBIEE12C_TEMPLATE.0 
RUNNING              OBIEXA01