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Status Future consideration
Categories Virtual Servers
Created by Guest
Created on May 6, 2023

Add webhook uri to Transient virtual servers IBM Cloud Interface

It's usefull to be able to add/remove a webhook url from the IBM Cloud Portal Interface for Transient virtual servers and not using just the Softlayer API SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::setTransientWebhook.

Idea priority Low
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool
  • Admin
    Jay Ablan
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    Nov 17, 2023

    "this would be new work, probably 2 week effort on our team, and we're pretty swamped right now. Seems like pretty low priority since this can already be done via API" - per alex

  • Guest
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    May 11, 2023

    According to documentation (https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-configuring-notifications-for-reclaims-of-transient-virtual-servers), the only way to set the notifications for reclaims of transient virtual servers is to use the SLDN API method SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::setWebhook(uri, secret).


    I thought, since the API already exists, it would be useful and not that complicated to add a option in the IBM Cloud Interface for Transient virtual servers to set this url, to not have clients like me call the API manually.