Assign Static NAT IP Address Using CloudStack API

CloudStack provides APIs using which a public IP can be acquired and assigned to virtual machines. A CloudStack admin, domain admin or a user can use CloudMonkey CLI to do the following steps:

1. First, use the associateIpAddress API Acquires and associates a public IP to an account
2. Then use the enableStaticNat API to enable Static NAT for the given address

In the below example, 192.168.64.106 is being acquired and associated with the IP address 10.1.1.97.

cloudmonkey> associate ipaddress \
 networkid=aa30e739-0dbd-44f3-8642-fa6c60a06ae0
accountid = ed219959-b923-4d7f-8b45-0416bebf5732
cmd = org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.user.address.AssociateIPAddrCmd
created = 2013-12-29T08:44:33+0530
jobid = 21b56968-c0b7-42b5-be14-dae29ee5ba11
jobprocstatus = 0
jobresult:
ipaddress:
id = 1205ac26-884c-4060-90bd-22fbf6a81d79
account = shanker
allocated = 2013-12-29T08:44:33+0530
associatednetworkid = aa30e739-0dbd-44f3-8642-fa6c60a06ae0
associatednetworkname = sysVLAN
domain = sysCredence
domainid = f84afe24-5a54-4d98-9067-2a8a61489e02
forvirtualnetwork = True
ipaddress = 192.168.64.106
isportable = False
issourcenat = False
isstaticnat = False
issystem = False
networkid = 56e13894-ac11-44a9-b4b5-bc4d772add03
physicalnetworkid = 1fca3b97-ae83-4c6d-b9db-b31d77f78ce5
state = Allocating
tags:
zoneid = 15944836-0b1e-4077-a4e0-9ee32306679e

cloudmonkey> enable staticnat \
 ipaddressid=67f16c0b-25a1-4ec8-8701-674a40d3091f \
 vmguestip=10.1.1.97 \
 virtualmachineid=d70a8740-6c09-4a1d-bc45-948c8aa9986a
success = true

You can verify the changes using the UI also.