7.1
Table Of Contents
- Programming Guide
- Contents
- vRealize Automation Programming Guide
- Overview of the vRealize Automation REST API
- REST API Authentication
- REST API Use Cases
- Create a Tenant
- Syntax for Displaying Your Current Tenants
- Syntax for Requesting a New Tenant
- Syntax for Listing All Tenant Identity Stores
- Syntax for Linking an Identity Store to the Tenant
- Syntax for Searching LDAP or Active Directory for a User
- Syntax for Assigning a User to a Role
- Syntax for Displaying all Roles Assigned to a User
- Request a Machine
- Approve a Machine Request
- List Provisioned Resources
- Manage Provisioned Deployments
- Working with Reservations
- Create a Reservation
- Display a List of Supported Reservation Types
- Displaying a Schema Definition for a Reservation
- Get the Business Group ID for a Reservation
- Get a Compute Resource for the Reservation
- Getting a Resources Schema by Reservation Type
- Creating a Reservation By Type
- Verify a Reservation and Get Reservation Details
- Display a List of Reservations
- Update a Reservation
- Delete a Reservation
- Create a Reservation
- Working with Reservation Policies
- Working with Key Pairs
- Working with Network Profiles
- Get a List of Available IP Ranges for an IPAM Provider
- Import and Export Content
- Syntax for Listing Supported Content Types
- Syntax for Listing Available Content
- Syntax for Filtering Content by Content Type
- Syntax for Creating a Package for Export
- Syntax for Listing Packages in the Content Service
- Syntax for Exporting a Package
- Syntax for Validating a Content Bundle Before Importing
- Syntax for Importing a Package
- Understanding Blueprint Schema
- Manage XaaS Content with Import and Export
- Create a Tenant
- Related Tools and Documentation
- Filtering and Formatting REST API Information
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Syntax for Navigating to the Children of a Deployed Resource
Use the GET: Child Resources link to retrieve a list of the child nodes of a deployment, including virtual
machines, networks, and other objects you may have configured on the blueprint canvas.
Using the REST API to Get Additional Deployment Information
In addition to general information about the provisioned resource, the response contains additional
HATEOAS links that enable you to obtain additional details and information about each returned child
resource.
Table 3‑6. HATEOAS Link Functions as Defined by rel Field
Link Description
GET: Parent Resource URI to get the resourceView for the parent item. See Syntax for Getting
Deployment Details.
GET:Template
{com.vmware.csp.component.cafe.composition@resour
ce.action.deployment.$actionName
URI to get a template request for a specific action that you can perform
on this resource.
POST:
{com.vmware.csp.component.cafe.composition@resour
ce.action.deployment.$actionName
URI to which to post the request to perform an action, based on the
corresponding template.
Input
Use the supported input parameters to control the command output.
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