Revision as of 14:08, 29 August 2013

This article describes operations for getting details of servers, along with updating and deleting servers in your account. Other types of operations on a server are: ServerCreate, ServerActions, etc.

GET /accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{id}

This operation will return details of a single server.

Parameters

accountId - string

The selected account Id.

id - string

Id of the server to get.

Result

JSON

{
   "server":{
      "status":"ACTIVE",
      "updated":null,
      "hostId":"{host_id}",
      "addresses":{
         "public":[
            {
               "version":4,
               "addr":"{ip_address}"
            }
         ],
         "private":[
            {
               "version":4,
               "addr":"{ip_address}"
            }
         ]
      },
      "links":[
         {
            "href":"http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{server_id}/",
            "rel":"self"
         }
      ],
      "image":{
         "name":"{display_image_name}",
         "links":[
            {
               "href":"http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/images/{image_id}/",
               "rel":"self"
            }
         ],
         "id":"{image_id}"
      },
      "userId":"{user_account_id}",
      "flavor":{
         "name":"1024MB Server3",
         "links":[
            {
               "href":"http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/flavors/{flavor_id}/",
               "rel":"self"
            }
         ],
         "id":3
      },
      "securityGroup":{
         "id":"{security_group_id}",
         "links":[
            {
               "href":"http://{server_name}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/os-security-groups/{security_group_id}/",
               "rel":"self"
            }
         ]
      },
      "id":"{server_id}",
      "zone": "{zone_textkey}",
      "name":"{display_server_name}",
      "adminPass":null,
      "created":"2011-12-05T12:51:28",
      "tenantId":null,
      "accessIPv4":"{ip_address}",
      "accessIPv6":null,
      "progress":100,
      "metadata":{

      }
   }
}

server

id - string

Unique identifier for this server.

links - list

Hypermedia for this resource.

status - string

Current state of the server. Values: BUILD, ACTIVE, SUSPENDED, DELETED, UNKNOWN

hostId - string

Id of the physical host this virtual machine is running on.

userId - string

Unique identifier for the owner of this server.

name - string

Display name for this server.

adminPass - string

always null.

created - string

The date and time this server was created. ISO 8601 format, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.

accessIPv4 - string

The default included public IPv4 address.

progress - number

The progress of the current this server while in the BUILD status. The value is in the range of 0 - 100, but currently will only even be 0, 50, 100.

metadata - object

Unused always an empty object.

tenantId

Unused always always null.

accessIPv6

Unused always null.

updated

Unused always null.

zone

Zone text key

addresses

addresses.public.version - number

IP version of this address. Values: 4

addresses.public.addr = string

Public IP address of this server

addresses.private.version - number

IP version of this address. Values: 4

addresses.private.addr - string

Private IP address of this server

image

image.name - string

The display name of the image this server is based on.

image.links - list

Hypermedia for the image.

image.id - string

Unique identifier for image this server is based on.

flavor

flavor.name - string

The display name of the flavor this server is based on.

flavor.links - list

Hypermedia for the flavor.

flavor.id - string

Unique identifier for flavor this server is based on.

securityGroup

securityGroup.id - string

the id of the security group that is assigned to this server

securityGroup.links - list

Hypermedia for the securityGroup.

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/test_server_0013

- Request Headers:

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

- Response: OK (200):

 {
    "server": 
       {
          "status": "ACTIVE", 
          "updated": null, 
          "hostId": "{host_id}", 
          "addresses": 
             {
                "public": [
                   {
                      "version": 4, 
                      "addr": "{ip_address}"
                   }
                ], 
                "private": [
                   {
                      "version": 4, 
                      "addr":  "{ip_address}"
                   }
                ]
             }, 
          "links": [
             {
                "href": "http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/test_server_0013/", 
                "rel": "self"
             }
          ], 
          "image": {
             "name": "CentOS 5 Plesk", 
             "links": [
                {
                   "href": "http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/images/test_public_image/", 
                   "rel": "self"
                }
             ], 
             "id": "test_public_image" 
          }, 
          "securityGroup":{
             "id":"group2012Nov02_jD6NX8BsK",
             "links":[
                {
                   "href":"http://{server_name}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/os-security-groups/group2012Nov02_jD6NX8BsK/",
                   "rel":"self"
                }
             ]
          },
          "userId": "{user_account_id}", 
          "flavor":  {"name": "", "links": [], "id": ""}, 
          "id": "test_server_0013",
          "zone": "AUS001",
          "name": "test_server_created", 
          "adminPass": null,
          "created": "2011-11-25T12:16:47", 
          "tenantId": null, 
          "accessIPv4": "{ip_address}", 
          "accessIPv6": null, 
          "progress": 100, 
          "metadata": {}
    }
 } 

• 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 or passing invalid account number - Response: ItemNotFound (404):

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

PUT /accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{id}

This operation will update details of a single server.

Parameters

accountId - string

The selected account Id.

id - string

Id of the server to update.

server attributes

name - string 

New display server name to update

Request

JSON

 { 
    "server" : 
       {
          "name" : "{new_display_name}" 
       }
 } 

Response

JSON

{
   "server":{
      "status":"ACTIVE",
      "updated":null,
      "hostId":"{host_id}",
      "addresses":{
         "public":[
            {
               "version":4,
               "addr":"{ip_address}"
            }
         ],
         "private":[
            {
               "version":4,
               "addr":"{ip_address}"
            }
         ]
      },
      "links":[
         {
            "href":"http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{server_id}/",
            "rel":"self"
         }
      ],
      "image":{
         "name":"{display_image_name}",
         "links":[
            {
               "href":"http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/images/{image_id}/",
               "rel":"self"
            }
         ],
         "id":"{image_id}"
      },
      "securityGroup": {
         "id":"{security_group_id}",
         "links":[
            {
               "href":"http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/os-security-groups/{security_group_id}/",
               "rel":"self"
            }
         ]
      },
      "userId":"{user_account_id}",
      "flavor":{
         "name":"1024MB Server3",
         "links":[
            {
               "href":"http://{api_server}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/flavors/{flavor_id}/",
               "rel":"self"
            }
         ],
         "id":3
      },
      "id":"{server_id}",
      "zone": "AUS001",
      "name":"{new_display_name}",
      "adminPass":null,
      "created":"2011-12-05T12:51:28",
      "tenantId":null,
      "accessIPv4":"{ip_address}",
      "accessIPv6":null,
      "progress":100,
      "metadata":{

      }
   }
}

Response Codes

Success

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Failure

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request : Display name in use. / Display name invalid.

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.

HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed : Unsupported server attribute.

DELETE /accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{id}

This operation will delete a single server.

Parameters

accountId - string

The selected account Id.

id - string

Id of the server 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

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/{fake_server_id}

Response Code:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Failure while trying to pass invalid account number

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

Response Code:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Alternative URI /servers/{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/{id}