Creating consumer

Ops Center Analyzer REST API Reference Guide

Version

11.0.x

Audience

anonymous

Part Number

MK-99ANA003-18

You can create a new consumer by specifying information such as the consumer name and grade.

Execution permission

Admin, Modify

Request line

POST baseURL/v1/objects/Groups

Request body

The structure of the request body and the object attributes are as follows:

Group

{
        "instanceID":"...",
        "name":"...",
        "status":"...",
        "gradeKey":"...",
        "gradeName":"...",
        "gradeDisplayOrder":"...",
        "description":"...",
        "templateCreatorType":"...",
        "numOfVolumes":"...",
        "numOfVMs":"...",
        "numOfHosts":"...",
        "volumeAutoAssignFilters":["...", ...],
        "vmAutoAssignFilters":["...", ...],
        "hostAutoAssignFilters":["...", ...]
}

Group (Type: Group)

Attribute	Type	Description
instanceID	string	ID of the consumer.
name	string	Name of the consumer.
status	enum	Status of the consumer. (For details about the valid values, see the table NodeStatusType in List of enumerators.) Normal Warning Critical Unknown
gradeKey	string	ID of the grade.
gradeName	string	Name of the grade.
gradeDisplayOrder	int	Priority of the grade.
description	string	Description.
templateCreatorType	enum	Type indicating whether the consumer can perform editing. The consumer can perform editing only if the type is "User". (For details about the valid values, see the table TemplateCreatorType in List of enumerators.) User Default
numOfVolumes	int	Number of volumes assigned to the consumer.
numOfVMs	int	Number of virtual machines assigned to the consumer.
numOfHosts	int	Number of hosts assigned to the consumer.
volumeAutoAssignFilters	string[]	Assignment rules of volumes that can be assigned to this consumer.
vmAutoAssignFilters	string[]	Assignment rules of virtual machines that can be assigned to this consumer.
hostAutoAssignFilters	string[]	Assignment rules of hosts that can be assigned to this consumer.

Response body

The structure of the response body and the object attributes is as follows:

Group

{
        "instanceID":"...",
        "name":"...",
        "status":"...",
        "gradeKey":"...",
        "gradeName":"...",
        "gradeDisplayOrder":"...",
        "description":"...",
        "templateCreatorType":"...",
        "numOfVolumes":"...",
        "numOfVMs":"...",
        "numOfHosts":"...",
        "volumeAutoAssignFilters":["...", ...],
        "vmAutoAssignFilters":["...", ...],
        "hostAutoAssignFilters":["...", ...]
}

Group (Type: Group)

Attribute	Type	Description
instanceID	string	ID of the consumer.
name	string	Name of the consumer.
status	enum	Status of the consumer. (For details about the valid values, see the table NodeStatusType in List of enumerators.) Normal Warning Critical Unknown
gradeKey	string	ID of the grade.
gradeName	string	Name of the grade.
gradeDisplayOrder	int	Priority of the grade.
description	string	Description.
templateCreatorType	enum	Type indicating whether the consumer can perform editing. The consumer can perform editing only if the type is "User". (For details about the valid values, see the table TemplateCreatorType in List of enumerators.) User Default
numOfVolumes	int	Number of volumes assigned to the consumer.
numOfVMs	int	Number of virtual machines assigned to the consumer.
numOfHosts	int	Number of hosts assigned to the consumer.
volumeAutoAssignFilters	string[]	Assignment rules of volumes that can be assigned to this consumer.
vmAutoAssignFilters	string[]	Assignment rules of virtual machines that can be assigned to this consumer.
hostAutoAssignFilters	string[]	Assignment rules of hosts that can be assigned to this consumer.

Status codes

Status code	Reason phrase	Description
201	Created	Success.
400	Bad Request	The format of the request body is invalid.
401	Unauthorized	No login privilege.
403	Forbidden	No update privilege.
404	Not Found	The grade is invalid.
409	Conflict	A resource with the same name exists.
412	Precondition Failed	The server is not available.
500	Internal Server Error	Server processing error.
503	Service Unavailable	Analyzer detail view server communication error.

Example code

[Request Header]
POST /Analytics/v1/objects/Groups
Authorization: Basic c3lzdGVtOm1hbmFnZXI=
Host: localhost:22015
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json

[Request Body]
{
  "name":"Group-20160720111044502",
  "gradeKey":"10",
  "description":"groupxxxxxxxxx"
}

[Response Header]
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 02:10:44 GMT
Server: Cosminexus HTTP Server
Cache-Control: no-cache
WWW-Authenticate: HSSO 33659a74fcee4358dc272b34eca6ded1bf1131ec_YXZvNFIMehp3UB4jbmVyPGUgT3Q=_V0810
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/json


[Response Body]
{
  "instanceID" : "group#aea4c579-af9d-4a01-b786-e05740ea687a",
  "name" : "Group-20160720111044502",
  "status" : "Unknown",
  "gradeKey" : "10",
  "gradeName" : "Platinum",
  "gradeDisplayOrder" : 10,
  "description" : "groupxxxxxxxxx",
  "templateCreatorType" : "User",
  "numOfVolumes" : 0,
  "numOfVMs" : 0,
  "numOfHosts" : 0,
  "volumeAutoAssignFilters" : [ ],
  "vmAutoAssignFilters" : [ ],
  "hostAutoAssignFilters" : [ ]
}