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• This request requires direct access to the Appliance Manager API

• Make a backup of your template folder before you begin

• If you are replacing a disk that was created from an instance of a captured VM,
  before you upload your new disk, add an Abiquo OVF file to the original VM template folder .
  You may be able to copy the OVF file of another template and modify it

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You will need a JSON file to describe the disk.
The steps below describe how to obtain the values of {TEMPLATE_URL}, {DISK_URL}, and {FOLDER_PATH} from the Abiquo UI.
You must set the correct requiredHDInMB for the deployed disk in Abiquo before you deploy the VM.
Try to complete the other disk data as best you can.

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1. Log in to Abiquo and open developer tools in your browser

2. Go to Network and record requests

3. Select and edit the template.

   

4. From the developer tools console, select the request to get the disks.
   Here you will find the:

   1. Template URL and disk URL

   2. Current path on the repository file system

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5. Complete the JSON object with the data from your API. For example, from the values above

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   { "virtualMachineTemplateUrl":"https://mjsabiquo.lab.abiquoexample.com/admin/enterprises/1/datacenterrepositories/1/virtualmachinetemplates/72", "diskUrl":"https://mjsabiquo.lab.abiquoexample.com/admin/enterprises/1/datacenterrepositories/1/virtualmachinetemplates/72/disks/74", "currentPath":"1/bundle/e05785d2-b49a-4034-9bb9-3440e1693589-4ba3b6e1-6f06-47d9-8703-9e9/daf2f2fb-d3d0-4263-a466-d1b27a0d6864-new+dsl+disk.vmdk", "diskController": "lsilogic", "diskControllerType": "SCSI", "diskFileFormat":"VMDK_STREAM_OPTIMIZED", "diskFilePath": "", "label": "Hard disk 1", "requiredHDInMB":120, "sequence":0 }

6. Save it to a file calleddiskReplace.json

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Obtain the URL

• To create the URL for the request, you will need:

  • The IP address of the remote services serverURL to reach the Remote Services server with the AM remote service.
    The rs_url is the URL of the AM, without any /api path. For example, https://mjsremoteservices.lab.example.com.

  • The folder part the path attribute

• The basic URL format is as follows

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Obtain an authorization token

• You will also need an authorization token, which you can get from any recent request.

• Use this to replace the {api_token} in the following steps

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Replace the file

This request is to the Appliance Manager remote service, so we need to use its URL, which may be the URL of the server or of a proxy.

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If you wish to use token authentication, which is more secure and required for 2FA, do these steps.

To obtain an authorization token, send a GET request to the API login resource.

Use basic authentication and get the token from the X-Abiquo-Token header.

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curl --verbose -X GET "https://mjsabiquo.lab.example.com:443/api/login" -u adminuser:password -k

If you are using 2FA, you can get the 2FA verification code in the usual way (by email or from Google Authenticator).

Log in again and send the 2FA verification code.

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curl --verbose -X GET "https://mjsabiquo.lab.example.com:443/api/login" -H "X-Abiquo-OTP: your2FAcode"

Now you can get the token from the X-Abiquo-Token header of the response.

In your API requests, use the token in a header with the following format.

In this example we have shortened the token.
In the workflow below, we represent the token with {api_token}.

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-H 'Authorization: Token a2e19816735381c1d074441cbd002aa01f9ed7dc4cd9f4e0683c3c88...'

For more details, see Authentication.

Note
The API token may expire during the process, and you may need to obtain a new token and use it in your requests

Tip
You can also get the token from the UI! Go to the browser Developer console on the Network tab and in the request responses look for the X-Abiquo-Token header.

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Replace the file

We recommend that you use double quotation marks around all the parameters, including the file parameters for diskInfo and diskFile.

curl -v -k -X POST 'https://mjsremoteservices.lab.abiquoexample.com/am/erepos/1/templates/1/bundle/e05785d2-b49a-4034-9bb9-3440e1693589-4ba3b6e1-6f06-47d9-8703-9e9' \
  -H 'Authorization: Token {api_token}' \
  -F "diskInfo=@diskReplace.json" -F "diskFile=@newdisk.vmdk"

Replace newdisk.vmdk  with the name of your disk file on the local file system.

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Use double quotation marks around all the parameters, including the file parameters for diskInfo and diskFile, especially if the disk file name contains spaces!

curl -v -k -X POST 'https://mjsremoteservices.lab.abiquoexample.com:443/am/erepos/1/templates/1/bundle/e05785d2-b49a-4034-9bb9-3440e1693589-4ba3b6e1-6f06-47d9-8703-9e9' \
  -H 'Authorization: Token {api_token}' \
  -F "diskInfo=@diskReplace.json" -F "diskFile=@newdisk.vmdk"

> POST /am/erepos/1/templates/1/bundle/e05785d2-b49a-4034-9bb9-3440e1693589-4ba3b6e1-6f06-47d9-8703-9e9 HTTP/1.1
> Host: abiquo.example.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.85.0
> Accept: */*
> Authorization: Token a2e19816735381c1d074441cbd002aa006febf2c4888bc2d79b9d2dfbcd9cbed84cbb0089197da8f0406f7a78ae2b25a64df188f10233541e5c45639b013b0c0
> Content-Length: 118752233
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------bb8e15ec8adeba87
> Expect: 100-continue
> 

< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
< HTTP/1.1 201 
< Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:44:47 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips
< Location: https://mjsremoteservices.lab.abiquoexample.com/am/erepos/1/templates/1/bundle/e05785d2-b49a-4034-9bb9-3440e1693589-4ba3b6e1-6f06-47d9-8703-9e9/8611a4ed-adbd-49aa-a22e-81fd4b60e833-newdisk.vmdk
< Content-Length: 0
<

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