Retrieve server hardware information with serverName filter?

[BradV]

Is it possible to filter on serverName in the GET server-hardware API?  I tried: 

curl --insecure \
     --header "auth: ${sessionID}" \
     --header "X-API-Version: ${currentVersion}" \
     --request GET ${OneView}/rest/server-hardware?serverName="my-host"

but I am getting much more than "my-host" in the return.  I want to retrieve the UUID associated with this server to use in conjunction with create a new server profile for it.  Just not sure of the best way to retrieve that? 

[DaveArko · Accepted solution]

You seem to be missing the ?filter= part of the request.    In playing around with it just now, I found it impossible to get the quoting to go through curl correclty without transforming any special characters to the %xx equiv.  (usuing postman returns this format when you ask for a command line equiv).

In my case, the request I was entering into postman is:

    https://my-oneview/rest/server-hardware?filter="'serverName' eq 'myservername'"

Translated to a curl command ended up being:

    'https://my-oneview/rest/server-hardware?filter=%22%27serverName%27%20eq%20%27myservername%27%22'

[BradV]

Great!  That worked!  

curl --insecure \
     --header "auth: ${sessionID}" \
     --header "X-API-Version: ${currentVersion}" \
     --request GET ${OneView}/rest/server-hardware?filter=%22%27serverName%27%20=%20%27my-host%27%22 | jq -r '.'

Thanks! 

[ChrisLynch]

@DaveArko is correct.  Almost every main URI supports the filter property, which is how you find an applicable resource using various object properties.  Do keep in mind that not all properties can be used to filter.  UserQuery is also another way you can find something. But UserQuery is also not fully supported by all URI's.

[BradV]

Hi Chris,

I'm trying to get a method from having a server profile template, using the new-profile API, then retrieving the UUID for a given server to modify the returned profile object before applying that to the server. 

Regards,

Brad