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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
- Summary of vCloud API Browsing Requests
- Retrieve the Login URL and List of Supported API Versions
- Create a Login Session Using the Integrated Identity Provider
- Retrieve a List of Organizations Accessible to You
- Retrieve an Administrative View of a Cloud
- Retrieve a List of vSphere Platform Operations and Objects for a Cloud
- Provisioning an Organization
- Summary of vCloud API Provisioning Requests
- Upload an OVF Package to Create a vApp Template
- Download a vApp Template as OVF
- Upload a Media Image
- Copying and Moving with the vCloud API
- Capturing and Importing vApps
- Cataloging vApp Templates and Media Images
- Creating and Using Independent Disks
- View or Change the Owner of an Object
- 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
- Provide User Input Requested by a Virtual Machine
- Attach or Detach an Independent Disk
- Creating and Using vApp Snapshots
- Operate a vApp
- Configuring vApps and Virtual Machines
- Retrieve the Configuration Links for a vApp
- Retrieve the Configuration Links for a Virtual Machine
- Update Multiple Sections of 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
- Update the Storage Profile for a Virtual Machine
- Creating and Managing Organizations
- Summary of Administrative Requests
- Administrator Credentials and Privileges
- Organization Administration
- vDC Administration
- Network Administration
- Catalog Administration
- User and Group Administration
- Working With Roles and Rights
- Controlling Access to vApps and Catalogs
- Managing and Monitoring a Cloud
- Summary of vSphere Platform Extension Requests
- Retrieve or Update System Settings
- Attach a vCenter Server
- Finding Available vCenter Resources
- Create a Provider vDC
- Create an External Network
- Create a Network Pool
- Import a Virtual Machine from vCenter
- Relocate a Virtual Machine to a Different Datastore
- Truststore and Keytab Maintenance
- Retrieve the vSphere URL of an Object
- Working With Object Metadata
- Using the Query Service
- Configuring and Using Blocking Tasks and Notifications
- vCloud Director Extension Services
- XML Representations in the vCloud API
- Index
name="vdcComposeVapp"
id="urn:vcloud:blockingTask:25" />
<vmext:EntityLink
rel="down"
type="vcloud:user"
name="vcloud"
id="urn:vcloud:user:44" />
<vmext:EntityLink
rel="up"
type="vcloud:org"
name="Default"
id="urn:vcloud:org:70" />
<vmext:EntityLink
rel="task"
type="vcloud:task"
name="vdcComposeVapp"
id="urn:vcloud:task:34" />
<vmext:EntityLink
rel="task:owner"
type="vcloud:vapp"
id="urn:vcloud:vapp:26" />
<vmext:Timestamp>2011-06-18T14:33:27.787+03:00</vmext:Timestamp>
<vmext:OperationSuccess>true</vmext:OperationSuccess>
</vmext:Notification>
A Notification contains an entityResolver URL and EntityLink elements that provide more information
about the entity, org, and user components of the routing key. Attributes of those elements show the name,
type, and id of each component. After you authenticate to the cloud as a system administrator, you can retrieve
any of the entities represented in an EntityLink by making a GET request to a URL you create by appending
the value of an id attribute to the entityResolver URL. See “Retrieve an Object as an Entity,” on page 312.
This request retrieves the blocking task that generated the Notification in this example.
GET https://vcloud.example.com/api/entity/urn:vcloud:blockingtask:25
The response to this request is identical to the one shown in the response portion of “Example: Handling a
Blocking Task,” on page 278.
Notification Types
The value of the type attribute of a vCloud Director notification is a string of the form
com/vmware/vcloud/event/
object-type
/
event-type
.
Table 10-2. User, Group, Role, and Session Events
Type (com/vmware/vcloud/event/) Description
session/login A login session was created.
user/import A user was imported from LDAP.
user/remove An imported user was removed from the organization.
user/modify One or more properties of a user were modified.
user/lockout An account was locked based on the organization's password
policy settings.
user/unlock A locked account was unlocked.
user/lock_expired The lock on an account has expired.
user/create A local user was created in an organization.
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