This article is for those who are interesting in quick reference to run REST API commands against the Elastifile system using CLI.
In the code below you can find a general authentication and some API calls.
You can always refer to 'REST API Docs' for more details under the following link from your Elastifile web interface:
Start API session for the EMS
EMS_IP=35.226.102.236 (example)
curl -k -D session.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"user": {"login":"admin","password":"'changeme'"}}' https://$EMS_IP/api/sessions
Get system total capacity
curl -k -s -b session.txt --request GET --url https://$EMS_IP/api/system_statistics/ | tr -d '\n' | cut -c6- | jq '.[0].capacity'
{
"bytes": 61033062334464
}
curl -k -s -b session.txt --request GET --url https://$EMS_IP/api/system_statistics/ | tr -d '\n' | cut -c6- | jq '.[0].free'
{
"bytes": 58385789321216
}
Get list of DC names
curl -k -s -b session.txt --request GET --url https://$EMS_IP/api/data_containers | tr -d '\n' | cut -c6- | jq '.[].name'
Get hard and soft quota for DC
curl -k -s -b session.txt --request GET --url https://$EMS_IP/api/data_containers | tr -d '\n' | cut -c6- | jq '.[1].hard_quota'
{
"bytes": 1073741824000
}
curl -k -s -b session.txt --request GET --url https://$EMS_IP/api/data_containers | tr -d '\n' | cut -c6- | jq '.[1].soft_quota'
{
"bytes": 536870912000
}
Modify soft quota on DC
curl -k -s -b session.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json" --request PUT --url https://$EMS_IP/api/data_containers/2 -d '{"soft_quota":{"bytes":805306368000}}'
curl -k -s -b session.txt --request GET --url https://$EMS_IP/api/data_containers | tr -d '\n' | cut -c6- | jq '.[1].soft_quota'
{
"bytes": 805306368000
}