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1# JSON-RPC Remote access {#jsonrpc_proxy}
2
3SPDK provides a sample python script `rpc_http_proxy.py`, that provides http server which listens for JSON
4objects from users. It uses HTTP POST method to receive JSON objects including methods and parameters
5described in this chapter.
6
7## Parameters
8
9Name                    | Optional | Type        | Description
10----------------------- | -------- | ----------- | -----------
11server IP               | Required | string      | IP address that JSON objects shall be received on
12server port             | Required | number      | Port number that JSON objects shall be received on
13user name               | Required | string      | User name that will be used for authentication
14password                | Required | string      | Password that will be used for authentication
15RPC listen address      | Optional | string      | Path to SPDK JSON RPC socket. Default: /var/tmp/spdk.sock
16
17## Example usage
18
19`spdk/scripts/rpc_http_proxy.py 192.168.0.2 8000 user password`
20
21## Returns
22
23Error 401 - missing or incorrect user and/or password.
24
25Error 400 - wrong JSON syntax or incorrect JSON method
26
27Status 200 with resultant JSON object included on success.
28
29## Client side
30
31Below is a sample python script acting as a client side. It sends `bdev_get_bdevs` method with optional `name`
32parameter and prints JSON object returned from remote_rpc script.
33
34~~~python
35import json
36import requests
37
38if __name__ == '__main__':
39	payload = {'id':1, 'method': 'bdev_get_bdevs', 'params': {'name': 'Malloc0'}}
40	url = 'http://192.168.0.2:8000/'
41	req = requests.post(url,
42                        data=json.dumps(payload),
43                        auth=('user', 'password'),
44                        verify=False,
45                        timeout=30)
46	print (req.json())
47~~~
48
49Output:
50
51~~~python
52python client.py
53[{u'num_blocks': 2621440, u'name': u'Malloc0', u'uuid': u'fb57e59c-599d-42f1-8b89-3e46dbe12641', u'claimed': True,
54u'driver_specific': {}, u'supported_io_types': {u'reset': True, u'nvme_admin': False, u'unmap': True, u'read': True,
55u'nvme_io': False, u'write': True, u'flush': True, u'write_zeroes': True}, u'qos_ios_per_sec': 0, u'block_size': 4096,
56u'product_name': u'Malloc disk', u'aliases': []}]
57~~~
58