[BlueOnyx:07687] Re: cce tools

[Jim Scott]

On 7/11/2011 4:40 PM, User Ernie wrote:
> Billing programs like WHMCS, Modernbill, AWBS etc. have a custom server
> provisioning module, you have to modify it to do what you want. Typically
> that involves using curl to contact the BX server and exicute the cce shell
> commands. It would be nice if someone wrote a small daemon for BX that had
> an encrypted API we could call for prvisioning from a billing system.
>
> - Ernie.
>
>
Ernie, I wrote a small wrapper around CCE that provides a web services 
interface that you can use to provision using HTTP Post/HTTP Get and 
SOAP. I posted a while back that I had put a sever online if people were 
interested in testing/seeing it. If enough people were interested I 
would be happy to clean it up and get it finished. One implementation 
detail however is that it is coded up in C# .NET and so required MONO 
dependency and either hosting in Apache or via XSP Web Server which is 
the path I choose. When I mentioned that the last time some commented it 
could be done directly in PHP etc... however I am a .NET developer so 
this was the language I chose. The fact that it was in C# and MONO 
turned seemed to cause a few to not be interested and made suggestions 
it be coded up to use PHP and thought it would be simple to implement. 
However I am not a PHP developer so again I chose C# for my own use. 
Also when I coded up this it was 2008 and to date I have not seen anyone 
take on the easy challenge ;-)


Here is one of my older posts: 
http://bluequartz.org/ml/archive/coba-e/13200/13299.html

Which dates back to June 2008.

The authorization mechanics I choose were a combination of 
username/password and IP protection. Also the username/password used is 
not authenticating via the machine but rather coded into the 
provisioning application.

<add key="ValidIPAddressList" value="192.168.240.33"/>
<add key="ProvisionUsername" value="user"/>
<add key="ProvisionPassword" value="pass"/>

Here is the list of methods I implemented. Note the methods that end in 
Ex are methods that use basic string parameters to get those method to 
be supported using HTTP Get/Post. In my case I used the NON-Ex methods 
as it gives me nice objects to work with. However the methods are 
identical and in fact the Ex methods really just wrap into a call to the 
NON-Ex method.

HelloWorld

AddVirtualSite
AddVirtualSiteEx

DeleteVirtualSite
DeleteVirtualSiteEx

VirtualSiteList
VirtualSiteListEx

I currently only use the VirtualSiteList to do reconciliation of my 
websites in our billing APP as we do manual provisioning currently as I 
never finished up our billing integration.




>> How would I call cce tools through a php application with the intention of
>> integrating with a billing/provisioning system?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rashid
>>
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