Programmatic Endpoint Status

[Bill Shirey]

Does anyone know of a programmatic/API way of querying the status of an endpoint given the UUID of the endpoint?  In my case I need to find out if a GCP client is running/can be connected to.

Thanks,

-Bill

[Wagner, Richard]

Hi Bill,

The  CLI has a call to get a local endpoint if it’s available. I didn’t see a corresponding method in the SDK so you may need to look at the CLI’s source if you want to implement this in your own code.

—Rick

CLI

https://docs.globus.org/cli/reference/endpoint_local-id/

(pretty sure this is the right call

On Jan 13, 2022, at 1:04 PM, Bill Shirey <bill....@gmail.com> wrote:



Does anyone know of a programmatic/API way of querying the status of an endpoint given the UUID of the endpoint?  In my case I need to find out if a GCP client is running/can be connected to.

Thanks,

-Bill

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[Derek Furst]

If i'm reading their question correctly, I think they're looking to do the equivalent of "./globusconnectpersonal -status" but with the globus cli or an api 

[Stephen Rosen]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 4:04 PM Bill Shirey <bill....@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know of a programmatic/API way of querying the status of an endpoint given the UUID of the endpoint?

In the general case -- for all endpoint types -- the best test is to try to do a filesystem operation like `ls`.

It requires credentials, but if the endpoint responds to `ls`, you know with certainty that it's online.

 

  In my case I need to find out if a GCP client is running/can be connected to.

For the specific case of GCP, there is something a little bit nicer.

If you do a get endpoint call (in the CLI, `globus endpoint show --format json`), you get back an endpoint document:

  https://docs.globus.org/api/transfer/endpoint/#endpoint_fields

Specifically, there are two fields in there:

gcp_connected
    If is_globus_connect is "true", this indicates if the Globus Connect Personal (GCP) software is running and connected to Globus. "null" for other endpoint types.

gcp_paused
    If is_globus_connect is "true", this indicates if the Globus Connect Personal (GCP) has been paused. "null" for other endpoint types.

If you are using the CLI, you can use the `--jq/--jmespath` option to parse out this value. e.g.

  $ globus endpoint show "$(globus endpoint local-id)" --jq "gcp_connected"

I hope all of that helps. If you have questions, please let us know!

Best,

-Stephen

Thanks,

-Bill