Help with Unisphere for VMAX REST API

Hi Sean,

Thanks very much for the pointer to the blog post and the information therein! That really helped me get started. I also got connected with a guy who helped me understand the XSD schema files so I can understand how to build the URLs and payloads to send to get other info. I've now got a small Python script working that does some simple GETs and POSTs.

Thanks again for the info,

Tom

PS - I figured I'd post the script I wrote here in the hopes it will help someone else get started. All the usual caveats apply of course (I don't claim that this script does anything...). You'll need to supply your own , , , and .

#!/usr/bin/python

import requests

import json

from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

# Define some connection info

unimaxURI = 'https:// :8443/univmax/restapi'

username = ' '

password = ' '

symmId = ' '

# A simple class to do GETs and POSTs and return a dict with the result

class u4vRest:

        # Set up some basic info when the class is instantiated

        def __init__(self, unimaxURL, username, password):

                self.headers = {'Content-Type' : 'application/json' }

                self.URL = unimaxURL

                self.username = username

                self.password = password

                self.symID = ""

                self.payload = {}

        def doGet(self,restURI):

                # Form the url by combining the base with the passed in part

                url = "%s/%s" % (self.URL,restURI)

                # Do the GET. verify=False lets us ignore the SSL Cert error

                r = requests.get(url,headers=self.headers, verify=False, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(self.username,self.password))

                # Convert the JSON data into a python dict

                data = r.json()

                return data

        def doPost(self,restURI,payload):

                url = "%s/%s" % (self.URL,restURI)

                r = requests.post(url,headers=self.headers, data=json.dumps(payload),verify=False, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(self.username,self.password))

                data = r.json()

                return data

# Instantiate the class

u4v = u4vRest(unimaxURI,username, password)

# Do some simple GETs

data = u4v.doGet('management/RuntimeUsage/read')

print json.dumps(data,indent=4)

data = u4v.doGet('common/Application/list')

print json.dumps(data,indent=4)

data = u4v.doGet('performance/Array/keys')

print json.dumps(data,indent=4)

# A POST requires a payload. We build a dict with the values corresponding to the schema

# The start and end Date are the same so we aren't going to get anything interesting...

payload = {

    "arrayAlertParam":{

        "startDate" : 946684800000,

        "endDate" : 946684800000,

        "symmetrixId" : symmId,

    }

}

data = u4v.doPost('performance/Array/alerts',payload)

print json.dumps(data,indent=4)