Create an automation job to execute azure runbook using REST API

Question

In this link (Create azure automation account using REST api from java) I'd asked about how to create an automation account in order to create runbook. Now, that I've created an automation account and also a runbook which is published, I want to execute(start) the runbook. In order to do so I am following this link (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/mt163849.aspx) but I am getting an error:

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This is the java function:

    private static int processPutRequest(URL url, byte[] data, String contentType, String keyStore, String keyStorePassword) 
    throws UnrecoverableKeyException, KeyManagementException, KeyStoreException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException {
       SSLSocketFactory sslFactory = getSSLSocketFactory(keyStore, keyStorePassword);
       HttpsURLConnection con = null;
       con = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
       con.setSSLSocketFactory(sslFactory);
       con.setDoOutput(true);
       con.setRequestMethod("PUT");
       con.addRequestProperty("x-ms-version", "2013-08-01");
       con.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", String.valueOf(data.length));
       con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", contentType);

       DataOutputStream requestStream = new DataOutputStream (con.getOutputStream());
       requestStream.write(data);
       requestStream.flush();
       requestStream.close();

       System.out.println(con.getResponseMessage());

       InputStream error = ((HttpURLConnection) con).getErrorStream();

       BufferedReader br = null;
       if (error == null) {
          InputStream inputstream = con.getInputStream();
          br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputstream));
       } else {
          br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(error));
       }
       String response = "";
       String nachricht;
       while ((nachricht = br.readLine()) != null){
          response += nachricht;
       }
       System.out.println(response);
       return con.getResponseCode();
   }

   public static void createJobId(String keyStorePath, String keyStorePassword, String subscriptionId)
throws  UnrecoverableKeyException, KeyManagementException, KeyStoreException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException
   {
       String url = String.format("https://management.core.windows.net/%s/cloudServices/OaaSCSI6EGAZU6F6QTCK5XRVT45FKJC6RC7IQIQW3OPR7SVLE4ZPD4IQQQ-East-US/resources/automation/~/automationAccounts/xdtauto/jobs/8c3e715-9b27?api-version=2014-12-08", subscriptionId);
       String requestBody = "{ \"properties\":{ \"runbook\":{ \"name\":\"createVM\" } } }";
       int createResponseCode = processPutRequest(new URL(url), requestBody.getBytes(), "application/json", keyStorePath, keyStorePassword);
       System.out.println("JOB created :: " + createResponseCode);
   }

Answer 1

@Joe's guess is correct.

Refer to the link https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/mt163849.aspx . As document shown,

In Windows PowerShell, you can use the this command to create the job ID:[GUID]::NewGuid().ToString().

The GUID in C#/.NET is generated by the functuion "System.Guid.NewGuid()". In Java, UUID is the same as GUID. Refer to the UUID Class link http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/UUID.html, it is generated by the function "java.util.UUID.randomUUID()".

So your code should be modified as following:

public static void createJobId(String keyStorePath, String keyStorePassword, String subscriptionId)
            throws UnrecoverableKeyException, KeyManagementException, KeyStoreException, NoSuchAlgorithmException,
            IOException {
        String automationName = <auto_account_name>;
        String jobId=java.util.UUID.randomUUID().toString();
        String url = String.format(
                "https://management.core.windows.net/%s/cloudServices/ OaaSCSI6EGAZU6F6QTCK5XRVT45FKJC6RC7IQIQW3OPR7SVLE4ZPD4IQQQ-East-US/resources/automation/~/automationAccounts/%s/jobs/%s?api-version=2014-12-08",
                subscriptionId, automationName, jobId);
        System.out.println("URL: "+url);
        String requestBody = "{ \"properties\":{ \"runbook\":{ \"name\":\"<RUNBOOK_NAME>\" } } }";
        int createResponseCode = processPutRequest(new URL(url), requestBody.getBytes(), "application/json",
                keyStorePath, keyStorePassword);
        System.out.println("JOB created :: " + createResponseCode);
    }

If you have created the runbook correctly and set up the correct runbook name in the request body, the code will run as expection and response the StatusCode 201.

However I found the other issue of the function "createRunbook" in your thread Create azure automation account using REST api from java, the element " properties/publishContentLink/uri" is required in the request body of create runbook(refer to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/mt163812.aspx).

So if the response body of create job include the information {"code":"NotFound","message":"Runbook not found."}, I suggest you to check your code and review the Runbook page on Azure Portal.

Answer 2

My guess is the error is due to the fact that you are not passing a proper GUID as the job id for the job to create. You are passing 8c3e715-9b27 but GUIDs are in the form xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx