Thank you!

@Tom-Elliott Thanks for your feedback. Everything very clear.
Last thing, I receive from GET: /fog/host the field pingstatus as an HTML tag:

"pingstatus": "<i class=\\"icon-ping-fos fa fa-cogs green\\" data-toggle=\\"tooltip\\" data-placement=\\"right\\" title=\\"FOS\\"><\\/i>",

Do you know why it is HTML tag rather than an error code? Thanks.

@george1421 Yes it should be easier but I prefer to work through FOG APIs.
Make use of ping from my script directly to VM would result to get access to VM from two different point: the script and the FOG server and it may be complicated to manage.

When I call GET on /fog/host I receive a JSON with a key-value field “ip”:“” but it’s always empty. Resolving this (understanding why it is always empty), I would only receive the IP when the host is up. Or another field?

I’m using VirtualBox 6.0.14 where there is an ubuntu 18:04 machine with FOG server, DHCP server and DNS.

I need to know when a VM is up or down using API. I see in the host management panel when the host is up a green indicator icon and when I step over it the word FOS appears. It appears after the configuration of DNS.
I would like to query FOG server and receive an information about its status but if I do this using python:

r = requests.get(ip_address+'/fog/host', headers=headers)

print('RESPONSE: ',r.content)

I cannot see difference between when the host is down or up.
Does anyone know how can I do, please?

@george1421 ok, could be a way to solve the problem! Thank you!

Hi everyone!

I have installed on windows10, VirtualBox 6.0.14 where there are VMs:

• Ubuntu 18:04 with FOG server and DHCP server --> server
• Ubuntu 18:04 --> client

I installed on the client the OS through NFS and everything works.

My goal is to turn on/off the client through APIs using WOL.

First, a question that’s not properly of this forum but maybe someone has already encountered this difficulty: Is it possible to do that? I mean, can I turn on/off VM on VBox from FOG server? Reading the forum the function is not enabled by Virtualbox but maybe there is a way to circumvent it.

• If it’s not possible: should someone advise me a solution to test the turn on/off machine? LXC? I could move on from VBox because I need just to test this solution and in the future move to physical machines. Nevertheless, I prefer to use VBox if it’s possible.

• If it’s possible: I think to create an “empty” snapin using WOL:true (to turn on) or shutdown:true (to turn off). Does it make sense?

I posted a similar question but it had some gaps so I preferred to post it more detailed.

Thanks to the community!

Solved! Remember to check the checkbox: API enabled

I’m running the latest stable version: 1.5.8

Hi everyone,
I’m implementing a script to query my FOG server looking the documentation at https://news.fogproject.org/simplified-api-documentation/

When I make a GET request:

curl -H 'fog-api-token: my_api_token' -H 'fog-user-token: my_fog_user' -X GET http://192.168.1.1/fog/task/current -o list.json

List.json remain empty and on console get:

Using postman I found out that the result is an HTML file.

Using python

import requests

usertoken='my_user_token'
apitoken='my_api_token'
headers = {'fog-user-token': usertoken, 'fog-api-token':apitoken }
r = requests.get('http://192.168.1.1/fog/task/current', params=headers)
print(r.url)

The script print

http://192.168.1.1/fog/management/index.php

Need I to modify something on FOG server configuration? I would like to get my current task via JSON file.
Thanks!

Yes! I solved moving to physical machine rather than using VBox, thanks for your help Eduardo.