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This week we just have one modification, check it out!

SoftLayer_Account

Added methods getAccountLicenses and getActiveAccountLicenses so you can retrieve the account software licenses owned by an account, and for the second method you can, of course, just get the active licenses.

A count for each property was added, so accountLicenseCount and activeAccountLicenseCount, show the total for each license.

SoftLayer_Search

The SoftLayer_Search service was introduced to search for almost every devices of an account, according to the documentation:

SoftLayer’s account historical service allows users to access a broad overview of devices for that account and historical details concerning the overall function and performance of the devices on that account

the service has the following methods:

• advancedSearch Search for SoftLayer Resources by simple terms.
• getObjectTypes Return a collection of indexed object types.
• search Search for SoftLayer Resources by simple phrase.

I do really belive that search deserves it’s own post, stay tuned.

SoftLayer_Software_AcccountLicense

It’s the service and datatype for the methods explained on SoftLayer_Account section.

According to documentations

SoftLayer_Software_AccountLicense is the application class that handles a special type of Software License. Most software licenses are licensed to a specific hardware ID or IP address, this is tied to an account.

the service has the following methods:

• getAccount Retrieve the customer account this Account License belongs to.
• getBillingItem Retrieve the billing item for a software account license.
• getObject Retrieve a SoftLayer_Software_AccountLicense record.
• getSoftwareDescription Retrieve the SoftLayer_Software_Description that this account license is for.

Types

• SoftLayer_Entity
• SoftLayer_Container_Resource_Metadata_ServiceResource SoftLayer_Resource_Metadata#getServiceResources now is returning an array of this ServiceResource, instead of an array of SoftLayer_Network_Service_Resource

See you next week!