ServerSnapshot

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This article describes operations for getting details of a server snapshot. Other types of operations on a server snapshot are: ServerSnapshotCreate, ServerSnapshotActions, etc.

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GET /accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{server_id}/snapshots/{snapshot_id}

This operation will return details of a single server.

Parameters

accountId - string
The selected account Id.
server_id
The unique identifier of the server.
snapshot_id
The unique identifier of the server snapshot to get

Result

JSON

{
    "snapshot": {
        "id": "{snapshot_id}", 
        "name": "{snapshot_name}"
        "description": "{description}", 
        "status": "{status}", 
        "guid": "{guid}", 
        "parent_guid": "{parent_guid}", 
        "relation_guid": "{relation_guid}", 
        "create_time": "{create_time}", 
        "links": [{"href": "http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{server_id}/snapshots/{snapshot_id}/", 
                   "rel": "self"}], 
    }
}
id - string
Unique identifier for this server snapshot.
name - string
Display name of this server snapshot.
description - string
Description of this server snapshot.
guid - string
GUID of this server snapshot.
parent_guid - string
Parent GUID of this server snapshot.
relation_guid - string
Relation GUID of this server snapshot.
status - string
Status of this server snapshot; Values: 'ACTIVE', 'BUILD', 'DELETED'
create_time - string
Created time of this server snapshot
links - array
Hypermedia for this resource.

Response Codes

Success
OK (200)
Failure
Unauthorized (401) : This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document you requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser does not understand how to supply the credentials required.
ItemNotFound (404) : The resource requested is not found.

Examples

Successfully get server details

GET http(s)://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/snapshots/snapshot_jello614636-USOTE-0214_2012Jul19_m5yf9Bz8a

- Request Headers:

   Content-Type:application/json
   Charset=UTF-8
   Authorization:Base64-encoded username & password string

- Response: OK (200):

{
    "snapshot": {
        "id": "snapshot_jello614636-USOTE-0214_2012Jul19_m5yf9Bz8a", 
        "name": "fitnesse snapshot"}
        "description": "fitnesse test snapshot", 
        "status": "ACTIVE", 
        "guid": "a4e76fdf-8696-4848-ba81-cfe090e1401d", 
        "parent_guid": "491aee4b-34bc-45e5-ac47-7ef9fb96c4c4", 
        "relation_guid": "42130087-f34c-4823-885d-8a908017ed8d", 
        "create_time": "2012-07-19 16:28:09", 
        "links": [{"href": "http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/jello614636-USOTE-0214/snapshots/snapshot_jello614636-USOTE-0214_2012Jul19_m5yf9Bz8a/", "rel": "self"}], 
}
  • When a server is in pending status (has not completed the provisioning process), the creation timestamp and hostId that are returned will be empty strings.

Failure while trying to get server details without proper authorization - Response: Unauthorized (401):

    401 Unauthorized
    This server could not verify that you are authorized to
    access the document you requested.  Either you supplied the
    wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser
    does not understand how to supply the credentials required.

Failure while trying to get server details for a non-existent server id - Response: ItemNotFound (404):

{
   "itemNotFound": 
      {
         "message": "Resource not found", 
         "code": 404, 
         "details": "",
         "errorid": "59e0b3dd-2173-432a-8ff5-60efe16e83bf"
      }
}

DELETE /accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{server_id}/snapshots/{snapshot_id}

This operation will delete a single server snapshot.

Parameters

accountId - string
The selected account Id.
server_id - string
The selected server Id.
snapshot_id - string
Id of the server snapshot to delete.

Response Codes

Success
HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted or HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Failure
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized : This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document you requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser does not understand how to supply the credentials required.
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found : The resource requested is not found.

Examples

Successfully delete a specific server

DELETE http(s)://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/123/snapshots/567

Response Code:

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted

Failure while trying to update a non-existent server

DELETE http(s)://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/123/snapshots/{fake_server_id}

Response Code:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Failure while trying to update server with a wrong account number

DELETE http(s)://{api_server}/accounts/fake/flexcloud/servers/123/snapshots/567

Response Code:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Alternative URI /servers/{server_id}/snapshots/{snapshot_id}

An alternative way to execute this call is to omit the accountId portion of the URI. In this case the system assumes the request is executed for the account identified in the authorization header.

GET /servers/{server_id}/snapshots/{snapshot_id}

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