API

Description

Traffic Server Implements and exposes management calls using a JSONRPC API. This API is base on the following two things:

  • JSON format. Lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It’s basically a collection of name/value pairs.

  • JSONRPC 2.0 protocol. Stateless, light-weight remote procedure call (RPC) protocol. Primarily this specification defines several data structures and the rules around their processing.

In order for programs to communicate with Traffic Server, the server exposes a JSONRRPC 2.0 API where programs can communicate with it.

Administrative API

This section describes how to interact with the administrative RPC API to interact with Traffic Server

Records

When interacting with the admin api, there are a few structures that need to be understood, this section will describe each of them.

RPC Record Request

To obtain information regarding a particular record(s) from Traffic Server, we should use the following fields in an unnamed json structure.

Field

Type

Description

record_name

string

The name we want to query from Traffic Server. This is optional if record_name_regex is used.

record_name_regex

string

The regular expression we want to query from Traffic Server. This is optional if record_name is used.

rec_types

array[number|string]

optional A list of types that should be used to match against the found record. These types refer to RecT.

Other values (in decimal) than the ones defined by the RecT enum will be ignored. If no type is specified, the server will not match the type against the found record.

Note

If record_name and record_name_regex are both provided, the server will not use any of them. Only one should be provided.

Example:

  1. Single record:

{
   "id":"2947819a-8563-4f21-ba45-bde73210e387",
   "jsonrpc":"2.0",
   "method":"admin_lookup_records",
   "params":[
      {
         "record_name":"proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.scale",
         "rec_types":[
            1,
            16
         ]
      }
   ]
}
  1. Multiple records:

{
   "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_lookup_records",
   "params": [{
         "record_name": "proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.scale"
      },
      {
         "record_name": "proxy.config.log.rolling_interval_sec",
         "rec_types": [1]
      }
   ]
}
  1. Batch Request

[
   {
      "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946",
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",
      "method": "admin_lookup_records",
      "params": [{
         "record_name_regex": "proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.scale",
         "rec_types": [1]
      }]
   }, {
      "id": "dam7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69dd123",
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",
      "method": "admin_lookup_records",
      "params": [{
         "record_name_regex": "proxy.config.log.rolling_interval_sec",
         "rec_types": [1]
      }]
   }
]

RPC Record Response

When querying for a record(s), in the majority of the cases the record api will respond with the following json structure.

Field

Type

Description

recordList

array[record]

A list of record object. See RecordRequestObject

errorList

array[errors]

A list of error object. See RecordErrorObject

RPC Record Error Object

All errors that are found during a record query, will be returned back to the caller in the error_list field as part of the RecordResponse object. The record errors have the following fields.

Field

Type

Description

code

string

optional An error code that should be used to get a description of the error.(Add error codes)

record_name

string

optional The associated record name, this may be omitted sometimes.

message

string

optional A descriptive message. The server can omit this value.

Example:

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{
   "code": "2007",
   "record_name": "proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.scale"
}

Examples:

  1. Request a non existing record among with an invalid type for a record:

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    {
       "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946",
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "method": "admin_lookup_records",
       "params": [
          {
                "record_name": "non.existing.record"
          },
          {
                "record_name": "proxy.process.http.total_client_connections_ipv4",
                "rec_types": [1]
          }
       ]
    }
    

    Line 7 requests a non existing record and in line 11 we request a type that does not match the record’s type.

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    {
       "jsonrpc":"2.0",
       "result":{
          "errorList":[
             {
                "code":"2000",
                "record_name":"non.existing.record"
             },
             {
                "code":"2007",
                "record_name":"proxy.process.http.total_client_connections_ipv4"
             }
          ]
       },
       "id":"ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946"
    }
    

    In this case we get the response indicating that the requested fields couldn’t be retrieved. See RecordErrorObject for more details.

    The error list can also be included among with a recordList

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    {
       "jsonrpc":"2.0",
       "result":{
          "recordList":[]
          ,"errorList":[
             {
                "code":"2000",
                "record_name":"non.existing.record"
             },
             {
                "code":"2007",
                "record_name":"proxy.process.http.total_client_connections_ipv4"
             }
          ]
       },
       "id":"ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946"
    }
    

    Note

    If there is no errors to report, the “errorList” field will be represented as an empty list ([]).

JSONRPC Record Errors

The following errors could be generated when requesting record from the server.

class RecordError
enumerator RECORD_NOT_FOUND = 2000

Record not found.

enumerator RECORD_NOT_CONFIG = 2001

Record is not a configuration type.

enumerator RECORD_NOT_METRIC = 2002

Record is not a metric type.

enumerator INVALID_RECORD_NAME = 2003

Invalid Record Name.

enumerator VALIDITY_CHECK_ERROR = 2004

Validity check failed.

enumerator GENERAL_ERROR = 2005

Error reading the record.

enumerator RECORD_WRITE_ERROR = 2006

Generic error while writting the record. ie: RecResetStatRecord() returns REC_ERR_OKAY

enumerator REQUESTED_TYPE_MISMATCH = 2007

The requested record’s type does not match againts the passed type list.

enumerator INVALID_INCOMING_DATA = 2008

This could be caused by an invalid value in the incoming request which may cause the parser to fail.

RPC Record Object

This is mapped from a RecRecord, when requesting for a record the following information will be populated into a json object. The record structure has the following members.

Record Field

Type

Description

current_value

string

Current value that is held by the record.

default_value

string

Record’s default value.

name

string

Record’s name

order

string

Record’s order

overridable

string

Records’s overridable configuration.

raw_stat_block

string

Raw Stat Block Id.

record_class

string

Record type. Mapped from RecT

record_type

string

Record’s data type. Mapped from RecDataT

version

string

Record’s version.

stats_meta

object

Stats metadata stats_meta

config_meta

object

Config metadata config_meta

  • it will be either config_meta or stats_meta object, but never both*

Config Metadata

Record Field

Type

Description

access_type

string

Access type. This is mapped from TSRecordAccessType.

check_expr

string

Syntax checks regular expressions.

checktype

string

Check type, This is mapped from RecCheckT.

source

string

Source of the configuration value. Mapped from RecSourceT

update_status

string

Update status flag.

update_type

string

How the records get updated. Mapped from RecUpdateT

Stats Metadata (TBC)

Record Field

Type

Description

persist_type

string

Persistent type. This is mapped from RecPersistT

Example with config meta:

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{
   "record":{
      "record_name":"proxy.config.diags.debug.tags",
      "record_type":"3",
      "version":"0",
      "raw_stat_block":"0",
      "order":"421",
      "config_meta":{
         "access_type":"0",
         "update_status":"0",
         "update_type":"1",
         "checktype":"0",
         "source":"3",
         "check_expr":"null"
      },
      "record_class":"1",
      "overridable":"false",
      "data_type":"STRING",
      "current_value":"rpc",
      "default_value":"http|dns"
   }
}

Example with stats meta:

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   {
      "record": {
         "current_value": "0",
         "data_type": "COUNTER",
         "default_value": "0",
         "order": "8",
         "overridable": "false",
         "raw_stat_block": "10",
         "record_class": "2",
         "record_name": "proxy.process.http.total_client_connections_ipv6",
         "record_type": "4",
         "stat_meta": {
            "persist_type": "1"
         },
         "version": "0"
      }
   }

Records

admin_lookup_records

method

Description

Obtain record(s) from TS.

Parameters

Result

A list of RecordResponse . In case of any error obtaining the requested record, the RecordErrorObject object will be included.

Examples

  1. Request a configuration record, no errors:

    {
       "id":"b2bb16a5-135a-4c84-b0a7-8d31ebd82542",
       "jsonrpc":"2.0",
       "method":"admin_lookup_records",
       "params":[
          {
             "record_name":"proxy.config.log.rolling_interval_sec",
             "rec_types":[
                "1",
                "16"
             ]
          }
       ]
    }
    

Response:

{
   "jsonrpc":"2.0",
   "result":{
      "recordList":[
         {
            "record":{
               "record_name":"proxy.config.log.rolling_interval_sec",
               "record_type":"1",
               "version":"0",
               "raw_stat_block":"0",
               "order":"410",
               "config_meta":{
                  "access_type":"0",
                  "update_status":"0",
                  "update_type":"1",
                  "checktype":"1",
                  "source":"3",
                  "check_expr":"^[0-9]+$"
               },
               "record_class":"1",
               "overridable":"false",
               "data_type":"INT",
               "current_value":"86400",
               "default_value":"86400"
            }
         }
      ]
      ,"errorList":[]
   },
   "id":"b2bb16a5-135a-4c84-b0a7-8d31ebd82542"
}
  1. Request a configuration record, some errors coming back:

    {
       "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946",
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "method": "admin_lookup_records",
       "params": [
          {
             "rec_types": [1],
             "record_name": "proxy.config.log.rolling_interval_sec"
          },
          {
             "record_name": "proxy.config.log.rolling_interv"
          }
       ]
    }
    

Response:

{
   "jsonrpc":"2.0",
   "result":{
      "recordList":[
         {
            "record":{
               "record_name":"proxy.config.log.rolling_interval_sec",
               "record_type":"1",
               "version":"0",
               "raw_stat_block":"0",
               "order":"410",
               "config_meta":{
                  "access_type":"0",
                  "update_status":"0",
                  "update_type":"1",
                  "checktype":"1",
                  "source":"3",
                  "check_expr":"^[0-9]+$"
               },
               "record_class":"1",
               "overridable":"false",
               "data_type":"INT",
               "current_value":"86400",
               "default_value":"86400"
            }
         }
      ],
      "errorList":[
         {
            "code":"2000",
            "record_name":"proxy.config.log.rolling_interv"
         }
      ]
   },
   "id":"ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946"
}

Request using a regex instead of the full name.

Note

Regex lookups use record_name_regex` and not ``record_name. Check RecordRequestObject .

Examples

  1. Request a mix(config and stats) of records record using a regex, no errors:

    {
       "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946",
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "method": "admin_lookup_records",
       "params": [
          {
                "rec_types": [1],
                "record_name_regex": "proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.sca*"
          },
          {
                "rec_types": [2],
                "record_name_regex": "proxy.process.http.total_client_connections_ipv"
          }
       ]
    }
    

    Response:

    {
       "jsonrpc":"2.0",
       "result":{
          "recordList":[
             {
                "record":{
                   "record_name":"proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.scale",
                   "record_type":"2",
                   "version":"0",
                   "raw_stat_block":"0",
                   "order":"355",
                   "config_meta":{
                      "access_type":"2",
                      "update_status":"0",
                      "update_type":"2",
                      "checktype":"0",
                      "source":"3",
                      "check_expr":"null"
                   },
                   "record_class":"1",
                   "overridable":"false",
                   "data_type":"FLOAT",
                   "current_value":"1",
                   "default_value":"1"
                }
             },
             {
                "record":{
                   "record_name":"proxy.process.http.total_client_connections_ipv4",
                   "record_type":"4",
                   "version":"0",
                   "raw_stat_block":"9",
                   "order":"7",
                   "stat_meta":{
                      "persist_type":"1"
                   },
                   "record_class":"2",
                   "overridable":"false",
                   "data_type":"COUNTER",
                   "current_value":"0",
                   "default_value":"0"
                }
             },
             {
                "record":{
                   "record_name":"proxy.process.http.total_client_connections_ipv6",
                   "record_type":"4",
                   "version":"0",
                   "raw_stat_block":"10",
                   "order":"8",
                   "stat_meta":{
                      "persist_type":"1"
                   },
                   "record_class":"2",
                   "overridable":"false",
                   "data_type":"COUNTER",
                   "current_value":"0",
                   "default_value":"0"
                }
             }
          ]
          ,"errorList":[]
       },
       "id":"ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946"
    }
    
  2. Request a configuration record using a regex with some errors coming back:

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    {
       "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946",
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "method": "admin_lookup_records",
       "params": [
          {
                "rec_types": [1],
                "record_name_regex": "proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.sca*"
          },
          {
                "rec_types": [987],
                "record_name_regex": "proxy.process.http.total_client_connections_ipv"
          }
       ]
    }
    

    Note the invalid rec_type at line 11

    Response:

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    {
       "jsonrpc":"2.0",
       "result":{
          "recordList":[
             {
                "record":{
                   "record_name":"proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.scale",
                   "record_type":"2",
                   "version":"0",
                   "raw_stat_block":"0",
                   "order":"355",
                   "config_meta":{
                      "access_type":"2",
                      "update_status":"0",
                      "update_type":"2",
                      "checktype":"0",
                      "source":"3",
                      "check_expr":"null"
                   },
                   "record_class":"1",
                   "overridable":"false",
                   "data_type":"FLOAT",
                   "current_value":"1",
                   "default_value":"1"
                }
             }
          ],
          "errorList":[
             {
                "code":"2008",
                "message":"Invalid request data provided"
             }
          ]
       },
       "id":"ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946"
    }
    

    We get a valid record that was found based on the passed criteria, proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.sca* and the rec_type 1. Also we get a particular error that was caused by the invalid rec types 987

  3. Request all config records

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    {
       "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946",
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "method": "admin_lookup_records",
       "params": [{
    
          "record_name_regex": ".*",
          "rec_types": [1, 16]
    
       }]
    
    }
    

    Note the `.*` regex we use to match them all. `rec_types` refer to ``RecT` , which in this case we are interested in `CONFIG` records and `LOCAL` records.

    Response:

    All the configuration records. See RecordResponse. The JSONRPC record handler is not limiting the response size.

Note

It will retrieve ALL the configuration records, keep in mind that it might be a large response.

admin_config_set_records

method

Description

Set a value for a particular record.

Parameters

Field

Type

Description

record_name

string

The name of the record that wants to be updated.

new_value

string

The associated record value. Use always a string as the internal library will translate to the appropriate type.

Example:

[
  {
      "record_name": "proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.scale",
      "record_value": "1.5"
  }
]

Result

A list of updated record names. JSONRPC Record Errors will be included.

Examples

Request:

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{
   "id": "a32de1da-08be-11eb-9e1e-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_config_set_records",
   "params": [
      {
            "record_name": "proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.scale",
            "record_value": "1.3"
      }
   ]
}

Response:

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{
   "jsonrpc":"2.0",
   "result":[
      {
         "record_name":"proxy.config.exec_thread.autoconfig.scale"
      }
   ],
   "id":"a32de1da-08be-11eb-9e1e-001fc69cc946"
}

admin_config_reload

method

Description

Instruct Traffic Server to start the reloading process. You can find more information about config reload here(add link TBC)

Parameters

  • params: Omitted

Note

There is no need to add any parameters here.

Result

A string with the success message indicating that the command was acknowledged by the server.

Examples

Request:

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{
   "id": "89fc5aea-0740-11eb-82c0-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_config_reload"
}

Response:

The response will contain the default success_response or an RPCErrorCode.

Validation:

You can request for the record proxy.node.config.reconfigure_time which will be updated with the time of the requested update.

Metrics

admin_clear_metrics_records

method

Description

Clear one or more metric values. This API will take the incoming metric names and reset their associated value. The format for the incoming request should follow the RecordRequest .

Parameters

Note

Only the rec_name will be used, if this is not provided, the API will report it back as part of the RecordErrorObject .

Result

This api will only inform for errors during the metric update, all errors will be inside the RecordErrorObject object. Successfully metric updates will not report back to the client. So it can be assumed that the records were properly updated.

Note

As per our internal API if the metric could not be updated because there is no change in the value, ie: it’s already 0 this will be reported back to the client as part of the RecordErrorObject

Examples

Request:

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{
   "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_clear_metrics_records",
   "params": [
         {
            "record_name": "proxy.process.http.total_client_connections_ipv6"
         },
         {
            "record_name": "proxy.config.log.rolling_intervi_should_fail"
         }
   ]
}

Response:

{
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "result": {
      "errorList": [{
         "code": "2006",
         "record_name": "proxy.config.log.rolling_intervi_should_fail"
      }]
   },
   "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946"
}

admin_clear_all_metrics_records

method

Description

Clear all the metrics.

Parameters

  • params: This can be Omitted

Result

This api will only inform for errors during the metric update. Errors will be tracked down in the RPCErrorCode field.

Note

As per our internal API if the metric could not be updated because there is no change in the value, ie: it’s already 0 this will be reported back to the client as part of the RecordErrorObject

Examples

Request:

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{
   "id": "dod7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc997",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_clear_all_metrics_records"
}

Response:

The response will contain the default success_response or an RPCErrorCode.

admin_host_set_status

Description

A record to track status is created for each host. The name is the host fqdn. This record contains the overall status and the status for each reason. The records may be viewed using the admin_host_get_status rpc api.

Parameters

Field

Type

Description

operation

string

The name of the record that is meant to be updated.

host

array[string]

A list of hosts that we want to interact with.

reason

string

Reason for the operation.

time

string

Set the duration of an operation to count seconds. A value of 0 means no duration, the condition persists until explicitly changed. The default is 0 if an operation requires a time and none is provided by this option. optional when op=up

operation:

Field

Type

Description

up

string

Marks the listed hosts as up so that they will be available for use as a next hop parent. Use reason to mark the host reason code. The ‘self_detect’ is an internal reason code used by parent selection to mark down a parent when it is identified as itself and

down

string

Marks the listed hosts as down so that they will not be chosen as a next hop parent. If time is included the host is marked down for the specified number of seconds after which the host will automatically be marked up. A host is not marked up until all reason codes are cleared by marking up the host for the specified reason code.

reason:

Field

Type

Description

active

string

Set the active health check reason.

local

string

Set the local health check reason.

manual

string

Set the administrative reason. This is the default reason if a reason is needed and not provided by this option. If an invalid reason is provided manual will be defaulted.

Internally the reason can be self_detect if proxy.config.http.parent_proxy.self_detect is set to the value 2 (the default). This is used to prevent parent selection from creating a loop by selecting itself as the upstream by marking this reason as “down” in that case.

Note

The up / down status values are independent, and a host is consider available if and only if all of the statuses are “up”.

Result

The response will contain the default success_response or an RPCErrorCode.

Examples

Request:

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{
   "id": "c6d56fba-0cbd-11eb-926d-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_host_set_status",
   "params": {
      "operation": "up",
      "host": ["host1"],
      "reason": "manual",
      "time": "100"
   }
}

Response:

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{
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "result": "success",
   "id": "c6d56fba-0cbd-11eb-926d-001fc69cc946"
}

Getting the host status

Get the current status of the specified hosts with respect to their use as targets for parent selection. This returns the serialized information for the host.

Request:

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{
   "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_host_get_status",
   "params": [
         "host1.mycdn.net"
    ]
}

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{
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "id": "ded7018e-0720-11eb-abe2-001fc69cc946",
   "result": {
      "statusList": [{
         "hostname": "host1.mycdn.net",
         "status": "HOST_STATUS_DOWN,ACTIVE:UP:0:0,LOCAL:UP:0:0,MANUAL:UP:0:0,SELF_DETECT:DOWN:1646248306"
         }
      ]
      ,"errorList":[]
   }
}

admin_server_stop_drain

method

Description

Stop the drain requests process. Recover server from the drain mode

Parameters

  • params: Omitted

Result

The response will contain the default success_response or an RPCErrorCode.

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{
   "id": "35f0b246-0cc4-11eb-9a79-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_server_stop_drain"
}

admin_server_start_drain

method

Description

Drain TS requests.

Parameters

Field

Type

Description

no_new_connections

string

Wait for new connections down to threshold before starting draining, yes|true|1. Not yet supported

Result

The response will contain the default success_response or an RPCErrorCode.

Note

If the Server is already running a proper error will be sent back to the client.

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{
   "id": "30700808-0cc4-11eb-b811-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_server_start_drain",
   "params": {
      "no_new_connections": "yes"
   }
}

Response could be either:

  1. The response will contain the default success_response

  2. Response from a server that is already in drain mode.

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{
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "id": "30700808-0cc4-11eb-b811-001fc69cc946",
   "error": {

      "code": 9,
      "message": "Error during execution",
      "data": [{

         "code": 3000,
         "message": "Server already draining."
         }]

   }

}

admin_plugin_send_basic_msg

method

Description

Interact with plugins. Send a message to plugins. All plugins that have hooked the TSLifecycleHookID::TS_LIFECYCLE_MSG_HOOK will receive a callback for that hook. The tag and data will be available to the plugin hook processing. It is expected that plugins will use tag to select relevant messages and determine the format of the data.

Parameters

Field

Type

Description

tag

string

A tag name that will be read by the interested plugin

data

string

Data to be send, this is optional

Result

The response will contain the default success_response or an RPCErrorCode.

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{
   "id": "19095bf2-0d3b-11eb-b41a-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_plugin_send_basic_msg",
   "params": {
      "data": "ping",
      "tag": "pong"
   }
}

admin_storage_get_device_status

method

Description

Show the storage configuration.

Parameters

A list of string names for the specific storage we want to interact with. The storage identification used in the param list should match exactly a path specified in storage.config.

Result

cachedisk

Field

Type

Description

path

string

Storage identification. The storage is identified by path which must match exactly a

path specified in storage.config.

status

string

Disk status. online or offline

error_count

string

Number of errors on the particular disk.

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{
   "id": "8574edba-0d40-11eb-b2fb-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_storage_get_device_status",
   "params": ["/some/path/to/ats/trafficserver/cache.db", "/some/path/to/ats/var/to_remove/cache.db"]
}

Response:

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{
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "result": [{
         "cachedisk": {
            "path": "/some/path/to/ats/trafficserver/cache.db",
            "status": "online",
            "error_count": "0"
         }
      },
      {
         "cachedisk": {
            "path": "/some/path/to/ats/var/to_remove/cache.db",
            "status": "online",
            "error_count": "0"
         }
      }
   ],
   "id": "8574edba-0d40-11eb-b2fb-001fc69cc946"
}

admin_storage_set_device_offline

method

Description

Mark a cache storage device as offline. The storage is identified by path which must match exactly a path specified in storage.config. This removes the storage from the cache and redirects requests that would have used this storage to other storage. This has exactly the same effect as a disk failure for that storage. This does not persist across restarts of the traffic_server process.

Parameters

A list of string names for the specific storage we want to interact with. The storage identification used in the param list should match exactly a path specified in storage.config.

Result

A list of object which the following fields:

Field

Type

Description

path

string

Storage identification. The storage is identified by path which must match exactly a path specified in storage.config.

has_online_storage_left

string

A flag indicating if there is any online storage left after this operation.

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{
   "id": "53dd8002-0d43-11eb-be00-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "admin_storage_set_device_offline",
   "params": ["/some/path/to/ats/var/to_remove/cache.db"]
}

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{
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "result": [{
      "path": "/some/path/to/ats/var/to_remove/cache.db",
      "has_online_storage_left": "true"
   }],
   "id": "53dd8002-0d43-11eb-be00-001fc69cc946"
}

show_registered_handlers

method

Description

List all the registered RPC public handlers.

Parameters

  • params: Omitted

Result

An object with the following fields:

Field

Type

Description

methods

string

A list of exposed method handler names.

notifications

string

A list of exposed notification handler names.

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{
   "id": "f4477ac4-0d44-11eb-958d-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "show_registered_handlers"
}

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{
   "id": "f4477ac4-0d44-11eb-958d-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "result": {
      "methods": [
            "admin_host_set_status",
            "admin_server_stop_drain",
            "admin_server_start_drain",
            "admin_clear_metrics_records",
            "admin_clear_all_metrics_records",
            "admin_plugin_send_basic_msg",
            "admin_lookup_records",
            "admin_config_set_records",
            "admin_storage_get_device_status",
            "admin_storage_set_device_offline",
            "admin_config_reload",
            "show_registered_handlers"
      ],
      "notifications": []
   }
}

get_service_descriptor

method

Description

List and describe all the registered RPC handler.

Parameters

  • params: Omitted

Result

An object with the following fields:

methods object

Field

Type

Description

name

string

Handler’s name. Call name

type

string

Either ‘method’ or ‘notification’

provider

string

Provider’s information.

schema

string

A json-schema definition

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   "id": "f4477ac4-0d44-11eb-958d-001fc69cc946",
   "jsonrpc": "2.0",
   "method": "get_service_descriptor"
}

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{
"jsonrpc":"2.0",
"result":{
   "methods":[
      {
         "name":"admin_host_set_status",
         "type":"method",
         "provider":"Traffic Server JSONRPC 2.0 API",
         "schema":{
         }
      },
      {
         "name":"some_plugin_call",
         "type":"notification",
         "provider":"ABC Plugin's details.",
         "schema":{
         }
      }]
   }
}

filemanager.get_files_registry

method

Description

Fetch the registered config files within ATS. All configured files in the system will be retrieved by this API. This basically drops the FileManager binding files. File Manager keeps track of all the configured files in Traffic Server.

Parameters

  • params: Omitted

Result

An list of object with the following fields:

config_registry object:

Field

Type

Description

file_path

string

File path, includes the full path and the file name configured in the record config name(if it’s the case)

config_record_name

string

Internal record config variable name.

parent_config

string

Parent’s configuration file name. e.g. If a top level remap.config includes additional mapping files, then the top level file will be set in this field.

root_access_needed

string

Elevated access needed.

is_required

string

If it’s required by Traffic Server. This specifies if Traffic Server treat this file as required to start the system(e.g. storage.config)

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{
   "id":"14c10697-5b09-40f6-b7e5-4be85f64aa5e",
   "jsonrpc":"2.0",
   "method":"filemanager.get_files_registry"
}

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{
   "jsonrpc":"2.0",
   "result":{
      "config_registry":[
         {
            "file_path":"/home/xyz/ats/etc/trafficserver/sni.yaml",
            "config_record_name":"proxy.config.ssl.servername.filename",
            "parent_config":"N/A",
            "root_access_needed":"false",
            "is_required":"false"
         },
         {
            "file_path":"/home/xyz/ats/etc/trafficserver/storage.config",
            "config_record_name":"",
            "parent_config":"N/A",
            "root_access_needed":"false",
            "is_required":"true"
         },
         {
            "file_path":"/home/xyz/ats/etc/trafficserver/jsonrpc3.yaml",
            "config_record_name":"proxy.config.jsonrpc.filename",
            "parent_config":"N/A",
            "root_access_needed":"false",
            "is_required":"false"
         }
      ]
   }
}