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• Object-Masks
  How Object Masks work. Used to specify which relational properties you would like included in your query.
• REST
  Getting started with REST API calls
• XML-RPC
  How to interact with the XML-RPC endpoint

go

• More Bare Metal Server examples
  Working with Bare Metal Server
• Event Logs
  Working with Event Log, with pagination support

perl

• Retrieve the month to date cost of an hourly VSI
  Returns the month to date cost of an hourly VSI using getBillingItem and Object Masks

php

• Create Storage Snapshot
  Initiate a manual snapshot of an Endurance or Performance Block storage volume.
• Get storage credentials for Block Storage
  Retrieving the username and password for Performance/Endurance Block storage
• Get top level billing items for all owned accounts
  Get invoice details for all sub-account in a given date range
• Get Invoices
  Get all invoices for a given date range

python

• Provision Times
  Generates a report of how long servers took to provision
• Endurance Storage Replication
  Examples on ordering, snapshots, and replication for endurance storage.
• Bandwidth Pools
  An example of getting information on portable subnets and servers in a bandwidth pool.
• Get verbose details about a Bare Metal Server
  Retrieve the packages, categories and items associated with a Bare Metal Server.
• Get a list of Virtual Guests and Bare Metal servers per Pod in a Datacenter
  List active Bare Metal and Virtual servers from each pod from a specific datacenter.
• Create Storage Snapshot
  Initiate a manual snapshot of an Endurance or Performance Block storage volume.
• Find Location specific pricing for a package
  Use an object filter and object mask to return the Location Based pricing information for a SoftLayer package.
• Get tickets using an objectFilter
  Pulls down all the cancellation tickets created after a set date, along with any updates
• Cancel an item or service
  Use cancelService to cancel an item or service
• Find a billing item from a provisioned product
  Determine the billing item of a provisioned product using getBillingItem

rest

• Working with Event Logs
  Going over Event Logs with some examples of what each might look like
• Tickets
  Examples of how to use and interact with tickets
• Events
  Going over Events with some examples of what each might look like
• Get Virtual Console Virtual Guest
  Retrieve the IP, username, and password needed to access the KVM console for a Virtual Guest.
• Use IBMid to get SL api key
  For accounts that use IBMid, this script can be used to pull down the SoftLayer API key directly.
• Get verbose details about a Bare Metal Server
  Retrieve the packages, categories and items associated with a Bare Metal Server.
• Get verbose details about a Virtual Guest
  Retrieve the packages, categories and items associated with a Virtual Guest.
• Create Storage Snapshot
  Initiate a manual snapshot of an Endurance or Performance Block storage volume.
• Month-to-date cost of a Virtual_Guest
  Determine the month-to-date cost of an hourly Virtual_Guest using getBillingItem and an objectMask
• Get Hardware hostnames
  Calls SoftLayer_Account::getObect() to retrieve some basic information about an account, and uses an objectMask to retrieve the hostname of all hardware on the account
• Get hostnames
  Calls SoftLayer_Account::getObject with an objectMask to pull in all the hostnames for both hardware and virtual servers. Uses the . and ; format for object Masks.
• GetHardware with network components
  Calls SoftLayer_Account::getHardware() with an objectMask to get some information about the networkComponents
• Ordering with placeOrder
  Example on how to call verifyOrder / placeOrder via REST. Replace the veryifyOrder call with placeOrder when you are actually ready to order the server
• Create virtual server
  Example of how to create a new virtual server (VSI) through a POST API operation
• Get virtual server details
  Example of how to retrieve the details of a virtual server through a GET API operation. The list of fields returned can be customized by adding or removing fields from the objectMask

ruby

• Show user accounts with and without two-factor enabled
  Get a list of users with two-factor authentication enabled/disabled.
• Get Virtual Console Virtual Guest
  Retrieve the IP, username, and password needed to access the KVM console for a Virtual Guest.
• Show storage on all Virtual Guests
  Show all block devices connected to your Virtual Guests as well as type and capacity of each block device.
• Get verbose details about a Bare Metal Server
  Retrieve the packages, categories and items associated with a Bare Metal Server.
• Get verbose details about a Virtual Guest
  Retrieve the packages, categories and items associated with a Virtual Guest.
• Find Location specific pricing for a package
  Use an object filter to return the Location Based pricing information for a SoftLayer package.
• Create Storage Snapshot
  Initiate a manual snapshot of an Endurance or Performance Block storage volume.
• Get storage credentials for Block Storage
  Retrieving the username and password for Performance/Endurance Block storage
• Calculating month-to-date cost of a Virtual_Guest
  Determine the month-to-date cost of an hourly Virtual_Guest using getBillingItem and an objectMask
• Find a billing item from a provisioned product
  Determine the billing item of a provisioned product using getBillingItem
• Determining SoftLayer Device Owners
  Determining which user on an account ordered a device
• Server Locate
  List specific physical location for virtual machines