Introducing OpenAPI spec sheet for SLDN api
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An explanation of how to trunk vlans with the CLI so servers can have access to more than their native VLANs
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Explains how the SofltLayer catalog works, how to navigate it to find packages, items, prices to build an order with. How to take those items and verify or place an actual order. Along with how to view your invoice to see the order you just placed.
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How to manage Event Notifications through the API. Covers both monitoring and maintenance events, and how configure which email addresses get notified about these events.
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How Deprecation works with the SoftLayer API.
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Covers how to use the Golang library to make API calls, along with some basics of the IBMCLOUD cli tool, which is written in golang.
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Covers using the softlayer-python project to interact with the SoftLayer API, along with how to use the `slcli`, a command line tool, which is bundled with the softlayer-python library
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An explanation of how to use the SoftLayer_Search service.
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Explains how to get the needed information to login to a virtual guest KVM console.
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How to interact with users on your account. Breaks down a lot of the various API calls required to manage an account, such as getting login attempts, event logs, permissions and more.
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Basics for the SoftLayer API
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How to keep track of bandwidth for servers and virtual guests.
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A breakdown of Classic Infrastructure Ordering.
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Details of how to read the product catalog, find prices, item conflicts, location and other restrictions.
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An overview of how networking is connected on Classic Infrastructure, and the APIs used to control it.
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How the SoftLayer API works, and what each piece of an API call is for.
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Examples on how to create Transient guests, and working with web hooks.
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Some examples of how to get billing and invoicing data from the API.
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How to handle Exceptions provided by the SoftLayer API
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This tutorial walks you through accessing detailed billing data for a single specified account using a specified time and date range
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An example of how to order a VSI and then automatically add a storage volume with a post install script.
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This tutorial walks you through accessing the steps required to access detailed billing data across sub-organization accounts using a specified date and time range.
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In version 5.4.0 of softlayer-python, there is a new slcli command for placing IaaS cloud server orders using the API. This command can also be used to place orders for products that are normally ordered through the IBM Cloud infrastructure customer portal.
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Our public virtual server offering now comes in four distinct virtual server families: balanced, balanced local storage, compute, and memory. With this enhancement, IBM continues its effort to provide you with a first-class public cloud experience by taking the guesswork out of provisioning the right instance flavor for your workload needs.
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Error Fetching http headers is a common error to encounter when working with the SLAPI. Here is how to fix it.
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How Object Masks work. Used to specify which relational properties you would like included in your query.
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Interacting with the SoftLayer API SOAP endpoint with Perl
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Authenticating to the SoftLayer API
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Working with datatypes from the SoftLayer API
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(DEPRECIATED) Dealing with Legacy Object Masks
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The SoftLayer API is built around the same system of user permissions that power the SoftLayer customer portal. What the API exposes and allows depends on the user account that is making the call and that user's permission set.
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PHP Jun 20, 2011
SoftLayer provides a PHP-based API client that takes the heavy lifting out making manual SOAP or XML-RPC calls.
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REST Jun 20, 2011
Getting started with REST API calls
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SOAP Jun 20, 2011
How to interact with the SoftLayer SOAP endpoint
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How Initialization parameters work
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How to paginate results from the SoftLayer API using ResultLimits
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How to interact with the XML-RPC endpoint
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