-----Original Message----- From: sebgoa [mailto:run...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:50 PM To: cloudstack Subject: need advice on awsapi docs
Hi, I am working on the new EC2 documentation. The CloudPlatform doc that I am looking at, as well as other web pages mention the script: cloudstack-aws-api-register for instance: "Register the mapping from the X.509 certificate to the API/Secret keys. Download the following script from http://download.cloud.com/releases.3.0.3/cloudstack-aws-api-register and run it. Substitute the values you obtained from the administrator in the URL below." It's a Python script. The interesting function from the file download on the web is: def register(url, api_key, secret_key, cert): # Register API keys query = 'accesskey=' + api_key + '&secretkey=' + secret_key get_url(url, api_key, secret_key, 'SetUserKeys', query) # Tie Certifcate to API keys query = 'cert=' + urllib.quote_plus(cert) get_url(url, api_key, secret_key, 'SetCertificate', query) In the source it's at: awsapi-setup/setup/cloudstack-aws-api.register and the function is: def register(url, api_key, secret_key, cert): # Register API keys query = 'accesskey=' + api_key + '&secretkey=' + secret_key result = get_url(url, api_key, secret_key, 'SetUserKeys', query) if result == True: # Tie Certifcate to API keys query = 'cert=' + urllib.quote_plus(cert) get_url(url, api_key, secret_key, 'SetCertificate', query) Currently, even if you only want to use the REST interface you will need to register your cert. So couple things that I need advice on: 1-Do we make this script available on the web or in source ? If we choose the web (like now), where should this script be (not on download.cloud.com I presume) ? we can't really expect users to download the source of CloudStack to get a single python script. [Rajesh Battala] This script will be available as a command when user installs the cloud. >>[Prachi] I think the script should be made available for download for users >>so that they don't have to pull the source code. I am not sure what location >>we should use though. 2-The register function calls, SetUserKeys and SetCertificate. Does the REST service work if we do not set the certificate ? [Rajesh Battala] the script will work even if the certificate file is empty. >>[Prachi] The register script is used for user registration for both SOAP and >>REST. For REST, even if the cert is empty, it should not matter as REST API calls do not use it anyways. thoughts, -Sebastien
