> -----Original Message----- > From: rohityada...@gmail.com [mailto:rohityada...@gmail.com] On Behalf > Of Rohit Yadav > Sent: 02 August 2013 22:43 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Making CloudMonkey simpler to use for admin tasks > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Donal Lafferty > <donal.laffe...@citrix.com>wrote: > > > I needed a different configuration than DevCloud provided, so I turned > > to CloudMonkey to automate setup of my test environment. > > > > This led to a blog on automating with CloudMonkey at > > http://dlafferty.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/using-cloudmonkey-to-automate. > > html > > > > > Nice. > > > > What I forgot to mention is that automation would be a lot simpler if > > we were to do the following: > > > > 1. Update Apache CloudStack logging to provide API calls in a tidy > > format that can be fed directly. E.g. POST parameters are not logged, > > GET parameters are URL encoded. > > > > 2. Update CloudMonkey to allow username / password authentication > > > > +1, send patch :) > How would you store the sessionkey?
E.g. see written in C#: https://github.com/lafferty/cloudstack_dotnetsdk/blob/master/CloudStack.SDK/client.cs Specifically, see public void Login(string userName, string password, string domainName, bool hashPassword) > > > > > 3. Update CloudMonkey to not be picky about the case of command > > parameters when 'api' command used. > > > > +1, send patch :) > This is a one liner change, no? > > > > > 4. Update CloudMonkey to allow filter option to be used with 'api' > > command. > > > > How do you propose using that, example? > Example: apiresult=`cloudmonkey api createPhysicalNetwork zoneid=$zone name='"Physical Network 1"' isolationmethods='"VLAN"' ` physnetid=`echo $apiresult | sed -e 's/^.*"id": //; s/,.*//'` becomes physnetid =`cloudmonkey filter=id api createPhysicalNetwork zoneid=$zone name='"Physical Network 1"' isolationmethods='"VLAN"' ` > Regards.
