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Open API Definitions for SLDN Nov 12, 2024

Introducing OpenAPI spec sheet for SLDN api
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VLAN Trunking Dec 18, 2023

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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Step By Step Ordering Nov 3, 2022

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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Events and Notifications Oct 14, 2022

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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Deprecation Dec 1, 2021

How Deprecation works with the SoftLayer API.
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The SoftLayer Golang Library Aug 16, 2021

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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The SoftLayer Python Library Aug 10, 2021

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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Searching with the SoftLayer API Jun 18, 2021

An explanation of how to use the SoftLayer_Search service.
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Accessing your Virtual Guest Console Jun 9, 2021

Explains how to get the needed information to login to a virtual guest KVM console.
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User Management Dec 21, 2020

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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Getting Started Oct 26, 2020

Basics for the SoftLayer API
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Bandwidth Oct 15, 2020

How to keep track of bandwidth for servers and virtual guests.
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Basic and Advanced Ordering Aug 24, 2020

A breakdown of Classic Infrastructure Ordering.
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The Catalog Aug 5, 2020

Details of how to read the product catalog, find prices, item conflicts, location and other restrictions.
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Classic Infrastructure Networking May 29, 2020

An overview of how networking is connected on Classic Infrastructure, and the APIs used to control it.
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SoftLayer API 101 Presentation May 7, 2020

How the SoftLayer API works, and what each piece of an API call is for.
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Transient Guests Jan 15, 2020

Examples on how to create Transient guests, and working with web hooks.
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Billing and Invoices Aug 22, 2019

Some examples of how to get billing and invoicing data from the API.
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Exception Handling in the SoftLayer API Aug 23, 2018

How to handle Exceptions provided by the SoftLayer API
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Single Account Billing Detail Aug 8, 2018

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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Automating Block Storage Jul 23, 2018

An example of how to order a VSI and then automatically add a storage volume with a post install script.
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Sub-Organization Billing Detail Jul 23, 2018

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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Understanding and building an order using the Softlayer order CLI Mar 12, 2018

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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VSI Flavors Mar 12, 2018

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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Object-Filters Jun 2, 2015

How Object Filters work
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How to Solve: Error fetching http headers Mar 19, 2013

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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Object-Masks Dec 3, 2012

How Object Masks work. Used to specify which relational properties you would like included in your query.
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SSL Management Mar 28, 2012

Working with SSL certs
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SOAP in Perl Jul 11, 2011

Interacting with the SoftLayer API SOAP endpoint with Perl
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Authenticating to the SoftLayer API Jun 20, 2011

Authenticating to the SoftLayer API
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C Sharp Jun 20, 2011

C Sharp
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Date Handling in the SoftLayer API Jun 20, 2011

Working with datatypes from the SoftLayer API
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Legacy Object Masks Jun 20, 2011

(DEPRECIATED) Dealing with Legacy Object Masks
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PERL Jun 20, 2011

Perl
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Permission Enforcement in the SoftLayer API Jun 20, 2011

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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Ruby Jun 20, 2011

Ruby Basics
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SOAP Jun 20, 2011

How to interact with the SoftLayer SOAP endpoint
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Using Initialization Parameters in the SoftLayer API Jun 20, 2011

How Initialization parameters work
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Using Result Limits in the SoftLayer API Jun 20, 2011

How to paginate results from the SoftLayer API using ResultLimits
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Visual Basic .NET Jun 20, 2011

Visual Basic .NET
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XML-RPC Jun 20, 2011

How to interact with the XML-RPC endpoint
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