Welcome to Actifio python client library documentation!

How to install?

To install the Actifio module, from a command line interaface:

→ pip install Actifio

This will ensure all the dependencies are managed and installed with the Actifio module installation. Once installed:

→ pip show Actifio
Name: Actifio
Version: 0.9.0
Summary: Actifio Restful API wrapper for Python.
Home-page: https://github.com/Actifio/actifio-python-package
Author: Kosala Atapattu
Author-email: kosala.atapattu@actifio.com
License: MIT
Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requires: urllib3
Required-by:

Geting started!!!

By design philosophy of this library is to make sure that the user experience is consistent to the actual product. Start Python and then you can import the module by:

from Actifio import Actifio

The library supports two modes of authentication, either using username or password, or using token generated locally.

  • Username and Password

With the same information you use to login to the appliance, you can create a appliance object.

appliance = Actifio("myappliance", "my_scripting_user", "super_secret")

Or

  • With Token

You can generate a token using the script in ‘’‘bin/’‘’ folder, or using the command. To generate a token:

$ bin/actgentoken
Username: demo
Password:
Confirm password:



================Token====================

b'eyAidXNlcm5hbWUiOiAiZGVtbyIsICJwYXNzd29yZCI6ICJkZW1vIiB9\n'

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Once the token is generated, appliance object can be instantiated as following:

appliance = Actifio("myappliance", token=b'eyAidXNlcm5hbWUiOiAiZGVtbyIsICJwYXNzd29yZCI6ICJkZW1vIiB9\n')

Once the appliance object is instatiated, we can perform the operations we perform on the applaince.

List all the hosts, for example:

hosts = appliance.get_hosts(hostname="my_host")

# and to see the top host in my List

host = hosts[0]

# or refine further

hosts = appliance.get_hosts(hostname="my_host", isvm="true")

Or find an application:

apps = appliance.get_applications(appname="mydb")

# and to see the top application in my List

if len(apps) > 0:
  app = apps[0]

# or refine further, and get my Oracle database

hosts = appliance.get_applications(appname="mydb", friendlytype="Oracle")

Once I have that, then I can perform the actions I usually perform… create a virtual clone of a DB appliance.clone_database() or create a instant mount appliance.clone_database(). Checkout the examples section for more details.

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