Is there a way to identified the image loaded with a particular SoftLayer VM?

Question

I need to find out the image name used for a particular SoftLayer VM.

I've looked around on the Soflayer UI but I cannot find it.

Answer 1

If you wish to retrieve the image template that was used to provision or reload a guest. You can use a rest API call to the getObject method of virtual guest service, as below:

Method: GET

https://username:apikey@api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest/123456/getObject?objectMask=mask[id,blockDeviceTemplateGroup[name]]

You will get a response like below example:

{
    "id": 123456,
    "blockDeviceTemplateGroup": {
        "name": "image-template-name"
    }
}