CLM AWS SDK
The BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Amazon Web Services software development kit (CLM AWS SDK) provides a normalized and homogenous interface to manage your Amazon Web Services cloud and other on-premises cloud providers such as VMware. It also provides API access to the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management stack and the AWS cloud.
The following topics are designed to enable you to quickly leverage the capabilities of CLM AWS SDK:
Topic | Description |
|---|---|
Describes the basics of the CLM AWS SDK. | |
Provides the procedure for configuring the CLM AWS SDK. | |
Lists the CLM AWS SDK use cases and includes the CLM-AWS-SDK-SAMPLE.zip file, which contains the complete end-to-end use cases code and configurations. | |
Describes the syntax and usage of the CLM AWS SDK. | |
Provides a detailed description of the CLM AWS SDK methods. For detailed API reference of the CLM AWS SDK methods, refer to the apiclient-1.0.0-javadoc.jar file. |
Prerequisites for using the CLM AWS SDK
Before using the CLM AWS SDK, ensure that you have performed the following tasks:
- Set up the AWS provider or VMware on-premise provider and have configured the settings for Amazon or vCenter provisioning correspondingly. For provider-specific details, see Consolidated-list-of-configuration-settings-for-Amazon-provisioning or Consolidated-list-of-configuration-settings-for-vCenter-provisioning.
- Specified Amazon EC2 Client access credentials in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.
- Created or onboarded the network container by using BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.
- Created a tenant in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.
- Mapped the network container with the tenant in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.
- Created and mapped an entitlement package with the tenant in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.
- Used CLMEC2Client instead of AmazonEC2Client in your code base.
- Specified the configurable parameters required by the CLM AWS SDK. For details about additional configuration file parameters required by the CLM AWS SDK, see Providing configuration parameters to CLM AWS SDK.
Downloading the CLM AWS SDK
Download the AWS_Northbound_SDK_for_CLM.zip file from BMC Communities and extract it in the folder structure of your choice.
Supported operations
The CLM AWS SDK supports the following operations for the AWS cloud and the on-premises cloud provider (VMware):
- Provisioning an instance
- Describing an instance
- Describing an instance's status
- Describing an instance's attributes
- Rebooting an instance
- Starting an instance
- Stopping an instance
- Terminating an instance
Compatibility
The following compatibility matrix lists the supported AWS SDK and BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management releases:
CLM AWS SDK version | BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management version | AWS version |
|---|---|---|
4.1.00 and later | BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 4.6.07 | aws-java-sdk-1.11.261.jar |
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 4.6.00 | aws-java-sdk-1.8.11.jar | |
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 4.5.00 | aws-java-sdk-1.8.11.jar | |
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 4.1.00 | aws-java-sdk-1.8.11.jar |
For more information
See the AWS SDK documentation on the Amazon Web Services technical documentation site.
Related BMC Communities blog entry
The following link provides supplemental information available from a blog entry in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Communities:
Unleash The Power of CLM AWS Client SDK
The blog discusses how to use this SDK to interact with Amazon Web Service (AWS) infrastructure and non-AWS infrastructure as well.