On 12/06/2012 02:22 AM, Eli Mesika wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Vincent Van der Kussen" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:39:02 AM >> Subject: [Users] Python script retrieving MACs >> >> Hi, >> >> Im currently making a script using the Python SDK to retrieve a list >> of VM names + their MAC address. >> I currently came up with this >> >> 17 vm = api.vms.list() >> 18 >> 19 >> 20 for item in vm: >> 21 hostname = item.get_name() >> 22 nic = api.vms.get(name=hostname).nics.list() >> 23 for net in nic: >> 24 nicname = net.mac.get_address() >> 25 print "%s" % hostname >> 26 print "%s" % nicname >> >> I've noticed that retrieving the nic list during the iteration does a >> logon each time which slows thing down dramatically. >> Is there a better way to get the NICs from a list of VMs? > > Michael P wrote in another thread : > > ##if you using > 3.1 backend, you should be using persistent authentication > in api, > ##this way you'll have to pass JSESSIONID and login will happen only on first > request. > > Michael , please elaborate on that
persistent authentication available since 3.1 api, if your backend is 3.1 or higher, sdk will use it by default, otherwise authentication happens peer request. > >> >> Regards, >> Vincent >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> -- Michael Pasternak RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
