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Table Of Contents
- vCloud API Programming Guide
- Contents
- vCloud API Programming Guide
- About the VMware vCloud API
- Hello vCloud: A Simplified RESTful Workflow
- Exploring a Cloud
- Provisioning an Organization with vApps, Templates, and Media
- Deploying and Operating vApps
- Summary of vCloud API vApp and Virtual Machine Operations Requests
- Create a vApp From a Template
- Compose a vApp From Existing Virtual Machines
- Recompose a vApp to Add or Remove Virtual Machines
- Operate a vApp
- Configuring vApps and Virtual Machines
- Retrieve the Configuration Links for a vApp
- Retrieve the Configuration Links for a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Update a Modifiable Section
- Update a vApp Network Configuration
- Update the NetworkConnectionSection of a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify the CPU Configuration of a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify the GuestCustomizationSection of a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify ProductSection Elements
- Retrieve or Modify Groups of Related Sections in a Virtual Machine
- Retrieve or Modify the Hard Disk Configuration of a Virtual Machine
- Creating, Provisioning, and Managing Organizations
- Summary of Administrative Requests
- Administrator Credentials and Privileges
- Organization Administration
- Network Administration
- vDC Administration
- Catalog Administration
- User and Group Administration
- Working With Roles and Rights
- Controlling Access to vApps and Catalogs
- Using vCloud API Extensions to Provision and Manage a Cloud
- Working With Object Metadata
- Using the Query Service
- Configuring and Using Blocking Tasks and Notifications
- XML Representations in the vCloud API
- Index
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type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.user+xml"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/user/85" />
<FullName>Example User Full Name</FullName>
<EmailAddress>user@example.com</EmailAddress>
<IsEnabled>true</IsEnabled>
<IsAlertEnabled>false</IsAlertEnabled>
<IsDefaultCached>false</IsDefaultCached>
<StoredVmQuota>0</StoredVmQuota>
<DeployedVmQuota>0</DeployedVmQuota>
<Role
type="application/vnd.vmware.admin.role+xml"
name="vApp User"
href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/admin/role/105" />
<GroupReferences />
</User>
Import a User from an LDAP Database
If an organization defines an LDAP service to use, an organization or system administrator can import user
accounts from that service.
Importing a group from LDAP imports all the users in the group. See “Import a Group from an LDAP
Database,” on page 151. You can also import users individually.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you are logged in as an organization administrator or system administrator.
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Verify that your organization has defined an LDAP service to use.
Procedure
1 Create a User element that identifies the LDAP user account to import.
The name attribute of the User element must match the LDAP user name, as specified in the organization's
LDAP properties. You must include the Role element in the request body.
2 POST the User element to the organization's users URL.
The server matches the value of the name attribute in the request body with the value of the LDAP attribute
that the organization specified in the value of the UserName element in the UserAttributes of its
OrgLdapSettings. LDAP attributes such as userPrincipalName or samAccountName are common choices here.
The server imports the user from the organization's LDAP service, and returns an updated User element to the
client.
Example: Import a User from an LDAP Database
This example imports a user to the organization created in “Example: Create an Organization,” on page 113.
The request includes an optional IsEnabled element, so the user is enabled as soon as the import is complete.
The response is a User element, most of which is not shown in the example. The response includes a link that
an administrator can use to edit user metadata, and additional elements, such as IsDefaultCached and
StoredVmQuota, inherited from organization defaults. It also includes a NameInSource element, which contains
the user's name as stored by the LDAP server, using the server's native encoding.
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