Web Hosting Resource Manager::AllocateDedicatedWebServer

This procedure allocates a dedicated Web server to a specified organization.

Input argument	Required	Description
<org>	Yes	The LDAP path of the owning organization.
<serverClassName>	Yes	The server class group to select the server candidate from.
<algorithm>	Yes	Defines the server candidate selection behavior. The allowed values are (note these are case sensitive): tightPack: From the set of servers that can satisfy the capacity of an allocation, the servers are ranked favoring those with the least amount of free space. evel: From the set of servers that can satisfy the capacity of an allocation, the servers are ranked favoring those with the most amount of free space.
<preferredDomainController>	Yes
<serverName>	No	The name of the IIS Web Server. Overrides automatic selection behavior. However the specified server is still evaluated to see if it has been added to Resource Manager, has the necessary resources to satisfy the request, is a member of the specified server class, and is set with a shared flag = 0. Note Despite the override of automatic selection behavior, you are still required to provide the <algorithm> parameter in the request.
<container>	No	A starting LDAP container to look for the server in. The procedure performs an LDAP search to resolve the <server>/<serverName> to the Active Directory computer object. You can improve the performance of this search by specifying a default container (e.g. LDAP://CN=Computers,DC=fabrikam,DC=Com).

Output Argument

The server selected for the allocation. For example:

	<server>

	<GUID>AFF7B1E1DF90A042BABA475A5D5E155D</GUID>

	<serverName>WEB01</serverName>

	</server>

Example XML Request

<request>

  <procedure>

	<execute namespace="Web Hosting Resource Manager" procedure="AllocateDedicatedWebServer" impersonate="1">

	<executeData>

		<org>LDAP://OU=alpineskihouse,OU=consolidatedmessenger,OU=Hosting,DC=fabrikam,DC=Com</org>

		<preferredDomainController>AD01-wh.fabrikam.com</preferredDomainController>

		<algorithm>level</algorithm>

		<serverClassName>IISWebServerBasic</serverClassName>

	</executeData>

	<after source="executeData" destination="data" mode="merge" />

	</execute>

  </procedure>

</request>

Example XML Response

No example XML response.