Donal, Thanks for the details and putting this together - this is definitely helpful and I'm bookmarking this.
Please post it on wiki as tutorial. Regards ilya > -----Original Message----- > From: Donal Lafferty [mailto:donal.laffe...@citrix.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 1:13 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: [Discuss] Making CloudMonkey simpler to use for admin tasks > > I needed a different configuration than DevCloud provided, so I turned to > CloudMonkey to automate setup of my test environment. > > This led to a blog on automating with CloudMonkey at > http://dlafferty.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/using-cloudmonkey-to- > automate.html > > What I forgot to mention is that automation would be a lot simpler if we > were to do the following: > > 1. Update Apache CloudStack logging to provide API calls in a tidy > format > that can be fed directly. E.g. POST parameters are not logged, GET > parameters are URL encoded. > > 2. Update CloudMonkey to allow username / password authentication > > 3. Update CloudMonkey to not be picky about the case of command > parameters when 'api' command used. > > 4. Update CloudMonkey to allow filter option to be used with 'api' > command. > > >