Daan, I see from the documentation that this is a new API for ACS 4.15. Do you have an example command line that I should inject this "deployasis" flag?
Thanks! Mike -----Original Message----- From: Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 11:18 AM To: users <us...@cloudstack.apache.org> Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: API Command Question for "networkids" Mike the old (your portal's) way should still work, on vmware you might want to call it with `deployasis=false` On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 5:01 PM Corey, Mike <mike.co...@sap.com.invalid> wrote: > That is one thing that caused me to raise this question. It isn't in the > API documentation, but found in the ACS logs when a VM is created via > CloudStack UI or API call from self-service portal. Our developer is > porting over the code that works from the Self-Service portal deploying a > VM to XenServer hypervisor. However, that same code does not configure the > network device correctly when deploying to VMware hypervisor. > > Example from ACS UI: > > > cmdEventType":"VM.CREATE","startvm":"true","nicnetworklist[0].network":"170d544c-ea5f-4627-98be-29202480aa4c","serviceofferingid":"eb796444-dec6-4b48-9552-de9a792a5b71","response":"json","ctxUserId":"6","displayname":"NetworkTest","name":"NetworkTest" > > Example from Self-Service API: > > > "cmdEventType":"VM.CREATE","networkids":"170d544c-ea5f-4627-98be-29202480aa4c","serviceofferingid":"fc57b518-b3d0-468c-8b2e-1704c88d763e","response":"json","ctxUserId":"8","displayname":"TVMNSQ000046" > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> > Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 9:15 AM > To: users <us...@cloudstack.apache.org> > Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: API Command Question for "networkids" > > Mike, I don't recognise the commands you talk about, `networkids` and > `nicnetworklist`. Can you give links to APIs in [1], please? There are some > API that are not generic over hypervisors, but these should be well > documented and really only very few. > > [1] https://cloudstack.apache.org/api/apidocs-4.15/ > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 2:27 PM Corey, Mike <mike.co...@sap.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > Hello - sending again in hopes of getting some feedback on the API > > question. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Mike > > > > From: Corey, Mike <mike.co...@sap.com.INVALID> > > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 12:18 PM > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; us...@cloudstack.apache.org > > Subject: [CAUTION] API Command Question for "networkids" > > > > Hi, > > > > Our self-service portal developers found that they cannot "port" code > from > > the current landscape running on XenServer with the new VMWare landscape > > recently built. There are some APIs that look to have changed and/or are > > specific to VMware hypervisors. > > > > The two APIs in question are the "networkids" and "nicnetworklist" > > commands. The command API "networkids" works from the self-service > portal > > when deploying to XenServer; however that same line of code does NOT > > configure the correct network settings (assigns to wrong guest network) > > when deploying to a VMware hypervisor. > > > > Digging into the logs we found that when deploying a VM from the ACS UI > to > > VMware, the command "nicnetworklist" is now used when deploying to VMware > > hypervisor. > > > > 1 - Is there API command that is "hypervisor-agnostic" or can be used > > against both XenServer and VMware? > > 2 - The VMware API references a NIC ID of "8" > > ("nicnetworklist[0].nic":"8",). Is this arbitrary or will each ACS > > management server (or region, or zone) use a different ID? > > > > * This could be a problem if our self-service services multiple > > regions/zones. > > 3 - Is there a global setting or other hidden setting that can be set so > > that ONE API Command works against both XenServer and VMware? > > > > Many thanks! > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > > Mike Corey > > > > Technology Senior Consultant, IT CS CTW Operation & Virtualization > Service > > US > > > > SAP AMERICA, INC. 3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, 19073 United > > States > > > > T +1 610 661 0905, M +1 484 274 2658, E mike.co...@sap.com<mailto: > > mike.co...@sap.com> > > > > > > [cid:image003.png@01D7B399.B29A8C00] > > > > > > > > -- > Daan > -- Daan
