October 2, 2017

Classes SoftLayer_Network_SecurityGroup
Tags securitygroups attachnetworkcomponents detachnetworkcomponents

Get network components, attach and detach network components

Examples of how to get a VSI's network components, attach network components to and detach network components from Security Groups.

Get the network component IDs for a VSI

Operation: GET

URL: SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest/{guest_id}/getObject.json?objectMask=mask[networkComponents.port,networkComponents.id]

Example CURL:

$ curl --user "$SOFTLAYER_USERNAME:$SOFTLAYER_API_KEY" -g -X GET 'https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest/39269481/getObject.json?objectMask=mask[networkComponents.port,networkComponents.id]'

Example Response:

{
    <output omitted>
    "networkComponents": [
        {
            "id": 21781733,
            "port": 0
        },
        {
            "id": 21781731,
            "port": 1
        }
    ],
    <output omitted>
}

Attach network component to Security Group

Operation: POST

URL: SoftLayer_Network_SecurityGroup/{securitygroup_id}/attachNetworkComponents

Example CURL:

$ curl --user "$SOFTLAYER_USERNAME:$SOFTLAYER_API_KEY" -X POST 'https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Network_SecurityGroup/461903/attachNetworkComponents' -d '{"parameters": [[21781731]]}'

Example Response:

{
    "requestId": "3d1bf39a0a0e4d699335c12"
}

Detach network component from Security Group

Operation: POST

URL: SoftLayer_Network_SecurityGroup/{securitygroup_id}/detachNetworkComponents

Example CURL:

$ curl --user "$SOFTLAYER_USERNAME:$SOFTLAYER_API_KEY" -X POST 'https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Network_SecurityGroup/461903/detachNetworkComponents' -d '{"parameters": [[21781731]]}'

Example Response:

{
    "requestId": "12b9e0b9459a1e000bfb169"
}
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