PlacementManager

class SoftLayer.managers.PlacementManager(client)

Manages SoftLayer Reserved Capacity Groups.

Product Information

• https://console.test.cloud.ibm.com/docs/vsi/vsi_placegroup.html#placement-groups

• https://softlayer.github.io/reference/services/SoftLayer_Account/getPlacementGroups/

• https://softlayer.github.io/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_PlacementGroup_Rule/

Existing instances cannot be added to a placement group. You can only add a virtual server instance to a placement group at provisioning. To remove an instance from a placement group, you must delete or reclaim the instance.

Parameters:

client (SoftLayer.API.BaseClient) – the client instance

__init__(client)

Methods

__init__(client)
create(placement_object)	Creates a placement group
delete(group_id)	Deletes a PlacementGroup
get_all_rules()	Returns all available rules for creating a placement group
get_backend_router_id_from_hostname(hostname)	Finds the backend router Id that matches the hostname given
get_object(group_id[, mask])	Returns a PlacementGroup Object
get_routers()	Calls SoftLayer_Virtual_PlacementGroup::getAvailableRouters()
get_rule_id_from_name(name)	Finds the rule that matches name.
list([mask])	List existing placement groups
resolve_ids(identifier)	Takes a string and tries to resolve to a list of matching ids.

Attributes

resolvers

create(placement_object)

Creates a placement group

A placement_object is defined as:

placement_object = {
    'backendRouterId': 12345,
    'name': 'Test Name',
    'ruleId': 12345
}

• https://softlayer.github.io/reference/datatypes/SoftLayer_Virtual_PlacementGroup/

Parameters:

placement_object (dictionary)

delete(group_id)

Deletes a PlacementGroup

Placement group must be empty to be deleted. https://softlayer.github.io/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_PlacementGroup/deleteObject

get_all_rules()

Returns all available rules for creating a placement group

get_backend_router_id_from_hostname(hostname)

Finds the backend router Id that matches the hostname given

No way to use an objectFilter to find a backendRouter, so we have to search the hard way.

get_object(group_id, mask=None)

Returns a PlacementGroup Object

https://softlayer.github.io/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_PlacementGroup/getObject

get_routers()

Calls SoftLayer_Virtual_PlacementGroup::getAvailableRouters()

get_rule_id_from_name(name)

Finds the rule that matches name.

SoftLayer_Virtual_PlacementGroup_Rule.getAllObjects doesn’t support objectFilters.

list(mask=None)

List existing placement groups

Calls SoftLayer_Account::getPlacementGroups

resolve_ids(identifier)

Takes a string and tries to resolve to a list of matching ids.

What exactly ‘identifier’ can be depends on the resolvers

Parameters:

identifier (string) – identifying string

Returns list: