How to get the servers per rack name

[Jerry.Mersel]

Hi:

     I need to get the name of the servers that are on a particular rack.

     I got from a colleague this get request:

      <ip>/api/v8.1/assets/search?q=Rack%20C2"  But it only returns partial results. When I put the server name in the same request it returns the results correctly.

   Any help will be greatly appreciated, Thank you

  Jerry

[Greg.Sterling]

Hello Jerry

Are you trying to search for the results like in your example or do you know the specific rack id and you're trying to list the servers in that specific rack.

If searching, you can add a type qualifier to your search to list only devices of type server. In my below example I searched by a specific rack name "Rack-1" and asked for only devices of type server be returned in the output.

https://<ITA-Server>/api/v8.1/assets/search?q=Rack-1&type=server

If you use the search api call to return the actual rack id. You can use get asset by id to get a list of the assets contained in the rack using this syntax which includes the "children" parameter. In this example my rack UUID is 3672a2ce-a174-4d90-88fe-790631242cf9

https://<ITA-Server>/api/v8.1/assets/3672a2ce-a174-4d90-88fe-790631242cf9?include=children

The above command returns all devices in the rack, so its not limited to servers, but you can parse that output

Regards

Greg Sterling

[Jerry.Mersel]

Thanks,

Unfortunately, it didn't work for me.

 I just looped through the hosts in the end in order to find which racks they are located. Not the most efficient but it can do.

Best regards,

Jerry

[Jerry.Mersel]

Thanks for your reply.,

I don't have the rights in the DC to do that.

In the end, I just loop through the hosts and got the racks that way.

Best regards,

Jerry