API Guide

Discover Chassis and contained Blade Servers

Using the predened chassis and server credentials, initiate a discovery request against an IP address that is known to belong to a

Chassis.

require 'ASMConfig'

url = ASM::API::URI('/DiscoveryRequest')

# Get credential ids

creds = ASM::Payload::load_xml('credentials.xml')

server_cred = creds.doc.xpath('//serverCredential').select{|c| c.at_xpath('label').text ==

'Dell PowerEdge Default'}.first.xpath('id').text

chassis_cred = creds.doc.xpath('//chassisCredential').select{|c| c.at_xpath('label').text

== 'Dell chassis default'}.first.xpath('id').text

disc = ASM::Payload::load_xml('discovery_skeleton.xml')

disc.set('deviceStartIp', '172.17.4.17')

disc.set('deviceEndIp', '172.17.4.17')

disc.set('unmanaged', 'false')

disc.appendChildren('DiscoverIPRangeDeviceRequest',

'deviceChassisCredRef' => chassis_cred,

'deviceServerCredRef' => server_cred,

'bDiscoverDevicesInChassis' => 'true')

begin

response = ASM::API::sign {

RestClient.post url, disc.to_xml, :content_type => :xml

}

payload = ASM::Payload.from_xml(response)

# Get the job status

jobStatus = payload.get('DiscoveryRequest/status')

print "<status>%s</status>\n" % jobStatus

rescue RestClient::Exception => e

print "Got exception with status: %d\n" % e.response.code

print "%s\n" % e.response

end

ManagedDevice

ManagedDevice is a generic interface to any Resources on the network which is being managed by ASM. A successful discovery

request results in the creation of instances of ManagedDevice.

Get all Managed Devices

Assuming the Discovery process succeeded, ASM will now know about some or all of the devices available on the network.

require 'ASMConfig'

url = ASM::API::URI('/ManagedDevice')

response = ASM::API::sign {

RestClient.get url

}

doc = Nokogiri::XML(response)

# Print selected info for each device

print "%30s%15s%20s%20s%15s\n" % %w(ServiceTag State IP Model Type)