I was recently working with Infoblox where I had to restart some services in order to registering the information I was configuring. Here is a quick over view of the workflow I wrote to achieve this.
You would need to register aVRO REST host that points to the infoblox grid. Then we need to first find the GRIB _ref. The _ref returns a URI that we append to the REST host that does something. It is like an HREF in XML.
Here is the first script.
operationUrl = "grid" requestType = "GET";
We then pass this in to the Invoke REST host workflow. This workflow accepts a requestType and the opertionUrl. Once this has been submitted, we then look at the contenResponse and get the _ref for the infoblox grid.
// Parsing JSON response
var grid = JSON.parse(restOutput.contentAsString);
// Setting and logging next available IP information
System.log("Creating the grid reference " + grid[0]._ref);
// Setting the REST operation URL
var operationUrl = grid[0]._ref + "?_function=restartservices";
// Creating request JSON content - using strinfiy to convert form object to JSON string.
var requestContent = JSON.stringify({
"restart_option" : "RESTART_IF_NEEDED",
"service_option" : "DHCP",
"member_order" : "SEQUENTIALLY",
"sequential_delay" : 10
});
requestType = "POST";
The script above parses the content response and looks for the _ref value in the returned object (grid[0]._ref).
Once we have that _ref URI, we append that onto the end of the REST host. We also pass in the following JSON post payload.
"restart_option" : "RESTART_IF_NEEDED", "service_option" : "DHCP", "member_order" : "SEQUENTIALLY", "sequential_delay" : 10
I was updating DHCP options and I was able to specify the service I wanted to restart. I could have specified other options such as ALL and DNS. I set the sequential_delay to 10 which means that it will wait 10 seconds before restarted in the DHCP service in each GRID master.
Some other really helpful info can be found here:
https://community.infoblox.com/forum/ddi/definitive-list-rest-examples
Hope that helps!
