[one-users] How to manage web-service requests?

[Joseph Glanville]

Hi Richard.

In order to build a web interface to OpenNebula you will require a
webserver that is able to connect the the XML-RPC service running on
the frontend. There are XML-RPC libraries available for most web
scripting languages including Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP etc.
HTTP GET/POST requests are sent to the webserver which then
communicates with the XML-RPC server.
When information is returned to the webserver it replies to the
webclient in some fashion (probably via AJAX or simple HTML).

Documentation on the XML-RPC API can be found here:
http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=documentation:rel1.4:api

Kind regards,

Joseph Glanville

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Javier Fontan <jfontan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can you elaborate on this? OpenNebula provides xml-rpc as the way of
> sending management commands to it, CLI interface uses this API to
> create, get info, destrot, etc. VMs, hosts and networks. You can add
> another layer as the occi or ec2 interfaces that serve as a
> translation layer between those protocols and ONE xml-rpc interface.
> What are you trying to accomplish here? What are those http-get/post
> requests for?
>
> Bye
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Richard Redweik
> <richard.redweik at uni-muenster.de> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> we are trying to set up a web-service based on OpenNebula.
>> So far we managed to run a virtual machine on a host.
>>
>> But now we are wondering, how to send requests (http-get and http-post) to the
>> front-end and how to manage this request, to forward it to a worker node.
>> Do we have to set up a web-server on the front-end, which takes the request?
>> And how will the request then be provided to the OpenNebula-Cluster?
>> Or does OpenNebula provide some tools?
>> Is it possible with the XML-RPC API? (I don't know if I got its use right...)
>>
>> Do you have some ideas, what's the best way for managing this?
>>
>> I would appreciate if you would give me some hints!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Richard
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>
>
>
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