Step By Step Ordering Nov 3, 2022
Explains how the SofltLayer catalog works, how to navigate it to find packages, items, prices to build an order with. How to take those items and verify or place an actual order. Along with how to view your invoice to see the order you just placed.
Events and Notifications Oct 14, 2022
How to manage Event Notifications through the API. Covers both monitoring and maintenance events, and how configure which email addresses get notified about these events.
The SoftLayer Golang Library Aug 16, 2021
Covers how to use the Golang library to make API calls, along with some basics of the IBMCLOUD cli tool, which is written in golang.
The SoftLayer Python Library Aug 10, 2021
Covers using the softlayer-python project to interact with the SoftLayer API, along with how to use the `slcli`, a command line tool, which is bundled with the softlayer-python library
User Management Dec 21, 2020
How to interact with users on your account. Breaks down a lot of the various API calls required to manage an account, such as getting login attempts, event logs, permissions and more.
Single Account Billing Detail Aug 8, 2018
This tutorial walks you through accessing detailed billing data for a single specified account using a specified time and date range
Sub-Organization Billing Detail Jul 23, 2018
This tutorial walks you through accessing the steps required to access detailed billing data across sub-organization accounts using a specified date and time range.
Understanding and building an order using the Softlayer order CLI Mar 12, 2018
In version 5.4.0 of softlayer-python, there is a new slcli command for placing IaaS cloud server orders using the API. This command can also be used to place orders for products that are normally ordered through the IBM Cloud infrastructure customer portal.
VSI Flavors Mar 12, 2018
Our public virtual server offering now comes in four distinct virtual server families: balanced, balanced local storage, compute, and memory. With this enhancement, IBM continues its effort to provide you with a first-class public cloud experience by taking the guesswork out of provisioning the right instance flavor for your workload needs.
Permission Enforcement in the SoftLayer API Jun 20, 2011
The SoftLayer API is built around the same system of user permissions that power the SoftLayer customer portal. What the API exposes and allows depends on the user account that is making the call and that user's permission set.