Getting bandWidth data in SL

Question

I am trying to get a bandwidth usage using Java Client API of Softlayer. The result of the API below is the throughput of bandwidth. Is there any API getting a bandwidth usage data with java ?

List<Data> dataList = Guest.service(client, deviceID).getBandwidthDataByDate(startDate, endDate, "public"); // throuput

Pls advice me why the bandwidth throughput data with this API are different from the data of control.softlayer.com. Is there any critical factor to get precise data?

Did you try the method I told you in your last question? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35987800/resource-data-in-softlayer the main reason that you got different values is because the methods you used return average values and the portal return the sum values. — Nelson Raul Cabero Mendoza, Mar 17 '16 at 13:11
Yes I found API for cpu and memory usage was working find, but I can't find JAVA API to get a usage of bandwidth. "getBandwidthDataByDate()" seems to return "throughput" data and this data is not matched to the data of softlayer control.com. — Mike Oh, Mar 18 '16 at 01:58
the code I sent you should return the usage, for throughput data you just need to change the sumarytype value from sum to timeaverage. I will try to do an example in java and I will submit it here. — Nelson Raul Cabero Mendoza, Mar 18 '16 at 13:29
Thanks. When I change the summaryType value from sum to timeaverage, it returns {"error":"All metrics in a single request must use the same summary type.","code":"SoftLayer_Exception"}. What is the size of data unit in Usage data? bytes? Usage graph is the sum of this bunch of data in specific period. right? — Mike Oh, Mar 21 '16 at 06:35
The error is werid for me it is working fine, the dataq unit is bytes and it should be the sum of data in the specific period — Nelson Raul Cabero Mendoza, Mar 21 '16 at 13:32

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '16 at 15:37

Try this code:

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.List;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.softlayer.api.ApiClient;
import com.softlayer.api.RestApiClient;
import com.softlayer.api.service.virtual.Guest;
import com.softlayer.api.service.container.metric.data.Type;
import com.softlayer.api.service.metric.tracking.Object;;

public class GetBandwidth {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String user = "set me";
        String apikey = "set me";

        // the VSI id
        Long vsiId = new Long(15003381);

        // Declare the API client
        ApiClient client = new RestApiClient().withCredentials(user, apikey);
        Guest.Service vsiService = Guest.service(client, vsiId);

        // Declaring the object mask to get information about the items
        vsiService.setMask("mask[id,metricTrackingObjectId]");

        try {
            Long metrictId = vsiService.getObject().getMetricTrackingObjectId();
            Object.Service objectService = Object.service(client, metrictId); 
            List<Type> validTypes = new ArrayList<Type>();
            Type typeIn = new Type();
            typeIn.setName("PUBLICin");
            typeIn.setKeyName("PUBLICIN");
            typeIn.setSummaryType("sum");
            Type typeOut = new Type();
            typeOut.setName("PUBLICout");
            typeOut.setKeyName("PUBLICOUT");
            typeOut.setSummaryType("sum");
            validTypes.add(typeIn);
            validTypes.add(typeOut);
            GregorianCalendar startDateTime = new GregorianCalendar(2016, 02, 04, 0, 0, 0);
            GregorianCalendar endDateTime = new GregorianCalendar(2016, 02, 18, 11, 59, 59);
            Long summaryPeriod = new Long(1800);



            Gson gson = new Gson();
            System.out.println(gson.toJson(objectService.getSummaryData(startDateTime, endDateTime, validTypes, summaryPeriod)));

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Unable to retrieve the bandwidht. "
                    + e.getMessage());
        }

    }

}

How can I know what kind of types and summary types as parameter I can choose ? I can't find the info in SL API. — Mike Oh, Mar 21 '16 at 06:40
That is tricky this method should return the valid data types http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Metric_Tracking_Object/getMetricDataTypes , but it seems it has some issues because it do not return neither the timeaverage nor the sum. — Nelson Raul Cabero Mendoza, Mar 21 '16 at 13:34

Getting bandWidth data in SL

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