How to power On/Off host with Rest api?

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Check out this Stack Overflow post:

Doesn't look like you can grab the authenticity_token ahead of time.

Check out Ohad's post on creating a VM:

Looks like he has a part that powers on the host…

HTH's,
Romeo

··· On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Viet Nguyen wrote:

From my Java Rest client I’m able to connect to a secure (basic http auth)
Foreman instance and create new hosts but can’t figure out a way to power
On/Off a host.

No luck with mimicking the browser request [2] either from java or curl.
It seems like I need to first login and somehow obtain authenticity_token
for subsequent requests.

Foreman logs

*1. Brower request (working): *

Started POST “/hosts/vnguyentest102/power?power_action=start” for
10.3.234.230 at Fri Mar 08 11:01:44 -0500 2013
Processing by HostsController#power as HTML
Parameters:
{“authenticity_token”=>“6pm5VCrOFd1AKbJTzSHOEEKh3HlSJjlK3VJ8ntFx2I=”,
“power_action”=>“start”, “id”=>“vnguyentest102”}
Redirected to https://******/hosts/vnguyentest102
Completed 302 Found in 810ms

2. Rest api - PUT (not working)

Started PUT “/hosts/vnguyentest102/power?power_action=start” for
10.3.234.230 at Fri Mar 08 12:20:00 -0500 2013
Processing by HostsController#power as HTML
Parameters: {“power_action”=>“start”, “id”=>“vnguyentest102”}
Redirected to https://******/users/login
Completed 302 Found in 35ms

3. Rest api - POST (not working)

Started POST “/hosts/vnguyentest102/power?power_action=start” for
10.3.234.230 at Fri Mar 08 12:45:36 -0500 2013
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches
“/hosts/vnguyentest102/power”):

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Unfortunately powerup didn't work

unknown attribute: powerup (ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError)

One clarification I'm aware that during host creation you can pass in
{compute_attributes {start=1}} to start VM. What I want to do via Rest is
like clicking on Power On/Off button.

··· On Friday, March 8, 2013 4:51:10 PM UTC-5, Romeo Theriault wrote: > > Check out this Stack Overflow post: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/941594/understand-rails-authenticity-token > > Doesn't look like you can grab the authenticity_token ahead of time. > > Check out Ohad's post on creating a VM: > > http://blog.theforeman.org/2012/01/creating-new-host-using-foreman-api.html > > Looks like he has a part that powers on the host... > > HTH's, > Romeo >
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Hi Viet,

did you manage to start a vm during build with {compute_attributes
{start=1}} because it' s not working in our example.

  "compute_attributes": {
    "cpus": 1,
    "cluster": "DevOps",
    "start": 1,
    "path": "/Datencenter/xxxx/vm/DevOps",
    "interfaces_attributes": {
      "new_interfaces": {
        "_delete": "",
        "network": "VM Network"
      },
      "0": {
        "_delete": "",
        "network": "VMNetwork69"
      }
    },

greetings

daniel

··· Am Samstag, 9. März 2013 00:54:13 UTC+1 schrieb Viet Nguyen: > > > > Unfortunately powerup didn't work > > *unknown attribute: powerup (ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError)* > > One clarification I'm aware that during host creation you can pass in > {compute_attributes {start=1}} to start VM. What I want to do via Rest is > like clicking on Power On/Off button. > > > > > On Friday, March 8, 2013 4:51:10 PM UTC-5, Romeo Theriault wrote: >> >> Check out this Stack Overflow post: >> >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/941594/understand-rails-authenticity-token >> >> Doesn't look like you can grab the authenticity_token ahead of time. >> >> Check out Ohad's post on creating a VM: >> >> >> http://blog.theforeman.org/2012/01/creating-new-host-using-foreman-api.html >> >> Looks like he has a part that powers on the host... >> >> HTH's, >> Romeo >> > > >