Discovering the Network File Server

In this example, we need to perform a number of tasks. The JSON object that we must send in the POST request contains the server ID for an admin server that is used to perform administrative tasks on the filer. It must also contain the ID for the Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-in that Oracle VM should use to connect to the filer. To handle this, we can rely on the get_id_from_name function that we defined in Obtaining the Server Pool ID Value:

pluginname="Oracle Generic Network File System"
adminserver="1.example.org"
plugin_id=get_id_from_name(s,baseUri,'FileServerPlugin',pluginname)
admin_id=get_id_from_name(s,baseUri,'Server',adminserver)

Now we can construct the JSON object for the network file server discovery and send the initial POST request:

...
data={
        'name': 'MyNFSFiler',
        'accessHost': '10.172.76.125',
        'fileServerType': 'NETWORK',
        'fileServerPluginId': plugin_id,
        'adminServerIds': [admin_id],
        'uniformExports': True,
    }
uri='{base}/FileServer'.format(base=baseUri)
r=s.post(uri,data=json.dumps(data))
job=r.json()
# wait for the job to complete
filer_id=wait_for_job(job['id']['uri'],s)

Refresh The Network File Server

To make use of the file systems that are exported by the network file server, you need to refresh the network file server:

# get the idval for the nfs
uri='{base}/FileServer/{nfsid}/refresh'.format(base=baseUri,nfsid=filer_id['value'])
r=s.put(uri)
job=r.json()
# wait for the job to complete
wait_for_job(job['id']['uri'],s)

Refresh File Systems

Now you finally need to obtain the file system ID values for each file system exported by the network file server, and refresh the file system for each of these:

uri='{base}/FileServer/{nfsid}/FileSystem/id'.format(base=baseUri,nfsid=filer_id['value'])
r=s.get(uri)
fsids=r.json()
for id in fsids:
    uri='{base}/FileSystem/{id}/refresh'.format(base=baseUri,id=id['value'])
    r=s.put(uri)
    job=r.json()
    # wait for the job to complete
    wait_for_job(job['id']['uri'],s)