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How can I find out the hardware server's image reference code by its image name ?
I tried searching the image Vyatta Subscription Edition for Bare metal 6.7.9 and VMware VSphere 6.5.0u1 here but did not find the image. Used the ruby gem to find out the images by following code

SoftLayer::ImageTemplate.find_public_templates(:name => name, client: client).first

But it was not able to find it.

I searched on my account and couldn't see any public image templates provided by SoftLayer with the names Vyatta Subscription Edition for Bare metal 6.7.9 or VMware VSphere 6.5.0u1.

Image templates can be created from virtual guests only, so if you create and make them public then they should be listed here https://control.softlayer.com/devices/images, the portal page makes api calls to retrieve that list, the getPublicImages retrieves the public images and getPrivateBlockDeviceTemplateGroups the private ones

I can suggest you to use object-filters to search images which their name starts with "Vyatta", the filter is something like this:

filter = SoftLayer::ObjectFilter.new do |img_filter|
 img_filter.accept('name').when_it begins_with('Vyatta')
end

Then your code should looks like the following:

SoftLayer::ImageTemplate.find_public_templates(:object_filter => filter)

It seems the find_public_templates takes a long time when retrieving the data with object_filter so I can also suggest you my own script which I feel it retrieves the data a little faster:

require 'rubygems'
require 'softlayer_api' 
require 'pp'

username = 'set me'
api_key = 'set me'

image_service = SoftLayer::Service.new('SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group',
 username: username, api_key: api_key)

filter = SoftLayer::ObjectFilter.new do |img_filter|
 img_filter.accept('name').when_it begins_with('Vyatta')
end

# Another way to set filters: 
# filter = SoftLayer::ObjectFilter.new
# filter.set_criteria_for_key_path("name", "operation"=>"^= Vyatta")

begin
 images = image_service.object_filter(filter).getPublicImages
 pp images
rescue StandardError => e
 puts "Error when executing the script... #e" 
end