connect to vplex restapi via python?

Yes it is possible I have attached a python script here which will display the details of a VPLEX context.  I've tested it quite a few times and it does work.  Below is the output from a run that displays the information for a cluster-witness:

Output:

Enter hostname or IP address> 10.250.X.X

Enter username> service

Enter password>

Type in the context to display data> cluster-witness

admin-state enabled

name cluster-witness

private-ip-address 128.221.254.3

public-ip-address 10.250.X.X

components components-in-cluster-witness

Code:

#################################################################################################

#                                                                                               #

# This python script uses REST on VPLEX to grab config data.  The user is prompted              #

# for the context and the data is displayed on separate lines.                                  #

# need to add a check for dict object type                                                      #

#################################################################################################

import json

import requests

import csv

import re

import getpass

import sys

requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()

#Get user input

hostname = input("Enter hostname or IP address> ")

username = input("Enter username> ")

passwd = getpass.getpass("Enter password> ")

context = input("Type in the context to display data> ")

headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}

url = 'https://' + hostname + '/vplex/' + context

response = requests.get(url, auth=(username,passwd), headers=headers, verify=False)

if response.status_code != 200:

    sys.exit("JSON Request failed error code: " + str(response.status_code))

parsed_json = json.loads(response.text)

for ini in parsed_json["response"]["context"]:

    clusterid = ini["parent"]

    if re.search("cluster", clusterid):

        cid = clusterid[10:19]

        print('Cluster ID: ' + cid)

    #print(response.text)

    for x in range(len(ini["attributes"])):

        #Test for value type.  If it's a null, then skip it.  If it's a list then iterate through it.  If it's a string then print it.

        if ini["attributes"] ["value"] == None:

           continue

        elif isinstance(ini["attributes"] ["value"], list):

            #Iterate through the list

            strList = ''

            strName = ini["attributes"] ["name"]

            for l in range(len(ini["attributes"] ["value"])):

                strList = ini["attributes"] ["value"] + ',' + strList

            prtName = strName + ' ' + strList

            print(prtName)

        else:

            print(ini["attributes"] ["name"] + ' ' + ini["attributes"] ["value"])

    for y in range(len(ini["children"])):

       print(ini["children"] ["name"] + ' ' + ini["children"] ["type"])

Thank you for the code sample.

weird I am getting authentication error. Cross checked, my credential is correct.

error
=====================================

{

    "response": {

        "context": null,

        "message": "User authentication failed.",

        "exception": null,

        "custom-data": null

    }

}

==============================

I added the following to your code to bypass SSL error
====Code======

requests.packages.urllib3.util.ssl_.DEFAULT_CIPHERS += 'HIGH:!DH:!aNULL'

try:

    requests.packages.urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl.DEFAULT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST += 'HIGH:!DH:!aNULL'

except AttributeError:

    pass

=====End ===========

By the way, this works for python v3.7.

I am using python 3.7.

I tried entering directly with the same result.

response =response.get(url,auth=(username,password),header=headers,verify.false)

the syntax is definitely correctly as I was able to connect to my github account with this method, not sure why I cannot get it past VPLEX authentication though.

I managed to connect in by adding credential in header instead.

thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

header = {'content-type': 'application/json, 'Username': ' ', 'Password': ' '}

request.get (url, verify=false, headers=headers)

Good news.  I have other scripts as well but this is the first I wrote and it's been the foundation for the others.  The biggest piece is iterating through the attributes, finding the appropriate names, determining the type of object the value is and then printing it out. 

This loop looks for type virtual-volume and then finds the values for a few things I need for my documentation:

for ini in parsed_json["response"]["context"]:

    if ini["type"] == 'virtual-volume':

        for x in range(len(ini["attributes"])):

            if ini["attributes"] ["name"] == 'name':

                volName = ini["attributes"] ["value"]

            if ini["attributes"] ["name"] == 'vpd-id':

                vpdId = ini["attributes"] ["value"]

                vpdId = re.sub('VPD83T3:', '', vpdId)

            if ini["attributes"] ["name"] == 'capacity':

                capBytes = ini["attributes"] ["value"]

            if ini["attributes"] ["name"] == 'locality':

                local = ini["attributes"] ["value"]

        clusterid = ini["parent"]

        if re.search("cluster", clusterid):

           cid = clusterid[10:19]

        if cid == 'cluster-1':

            dc = 'PDC'

        else:

            dc = 'SDC'

        strLine = volName + ',' + vpdId + ',' + capBytes + ',' + local + ',' + dc

        print(strLine)

        strLine = strLine + '\n'

        f.write(strLine)

Happy scripting!

Thank You for sharing the code, definitely helpful as a foundation.

agree that iterating through the attributes is a challenge.

Took me a while to understand how to grab just the virtual volume name from storage-view output.

pprint.pprint(jsondata["response"]["context"][0]["attributes"][7])

headers = {'Username': "service", 'Password': "password", 'content-type': 'application/json', 'args' : "-c cluster-1"}
#args = {'args': "--cluster cluster-1"}
#headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
#headers = {'args' : "-c cluster-1"}

url = 'https://' + hostaddress + '/vplex/export+storage-view+find-unmapped-volumes'

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, verify=False)

getting below error during passing of the arguments will you be able to help

xyz-vp01.ikea.com
{
"response": {
"context": null,
"message": "export storage-view find-unmapped-volumes",
"exception": "export storage-view Evaluation of < > failed.\ncause: Command execution failed.\ncause: missing argument --cluster: Unable to find a\n reasonable default value for this option when\n this command is executed in the current context.\n",
"custom-data": null
}
}

@NehaBorage Are you trying to get a list of volumes that arent in a storage view?

@ankur.patel - yes I am trying to get list of volumes not in Storage view

Im not well versed with python yet. I used postman to create a query. Im able to convert it to python code. Let me know if this helps. Im guessing the part you care about is the URL

import http.client
import mimetypes
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("10.x.x.x")
payload = ''
headers = {
'Authorization': 'Basic c2VydmljZTpNaUBEaW03VDE=',
'Cookie': 'JSESSIONID=A77047C1FADB9086668454E8848F575F'
}
conn.request("GET", "/vplex/v2/clusters/cluster-2/virtual_volumes?service_status=unexported", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))