Configure Manager's watchdog

The flexVDI Agent service in each host is also in charge of keeping the flexVDI Manager instance up. This API call distributes the watchdog configuration to all Hosts in the Image Storage that stores the flexVDI Manager's images whenever it changes.

Format

Method	POST
URL	/hosts/configwatchdog
Request contents	WatchdogConfig Object
Successful answer	ManagerResult Object
Unexpected error	HTTP 500

WatchdogConfig Object

Schema

imagestorage_id	String	Task type identifier. In this case, "host_action"
volume_id	String	Host's unique identifier
...	Other	Watchdog config fields are explained here.

JSON example

{
    "vmname" : "flexVDI_Manager",
    "ipaddress" : "10.111.9.14",
    "vmbridge" : "virbr0",
    "vmvlan" : "",
    "instance" : "01",
    "storage_mode" : "ocfs2",
    "host_list" : [ "flexpre02" ],
    "ocfs2_primarydisk_id" : "35000c5007aff6846",
    "imagestorage_id" : "Local",
    "volume_id" : "Mecanico",
    "vmimage" : "/var/lib/flexvdi/image_storages/Local/Mecanico/flexvdi-manager-3.1.0",
    "vmdata" : "/var/lib/flexvdi/image_storages/Local/Mecanico/flexvdi-manager-data",
    "ha_mode" : "clustered",
    "vmpassword" : "tNWxJgZEyBP8"
}