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
Table 3‑2. JSON Template Value Table
JSON File Parameter Name Description of Value
workItemId Specifies the value of the corresponding work item ID obtained from the
work item list.
source-source-provider-
Cafe.Shim.VirtualMachine.NumberOfInstances value
Specifies the number of instances requested.
source-source-provider-VirtualMachine.Memory.Size Specifies the amount of memory requested in GB.
source-source-provider-VirtualMachine.CPU.Count Specifies the number of CPUs requested.
source-businessJustification Specifies the text description of reason for request.
source-source-provider-VirtualMachine.LeaseDays Specifies the number of days to lease.
workItemActionId To approve a request, include the approve statement, for example
com.mycompany.csp.core.approval.action.approve..
To reject a request, include the reject statement, for example
com.mycompany.csp.core.approval.action.reject.
Example: JSON Input File
Use the following JSON input file sample when constructing a file.
{
"@type": "CatalogItemRequest",
"catalogItemRef": {
"id": "65fbca06-a28e-46f3-bced-c6e5fb3a66f9"
},
"organization": {
"tenantRef": "MYCOMPANY",
"subtenantRef": "cccd7a7e-5283-416b-beb0-45eb4e924dcb"
},
"requestedFor": "fritz@example.mycompany.com",
"state": "SUBMITTED",
"requestNumber": 0,
"requestData": {
"entries": [{
"key": "provider-blueprintId",
"value": {
"type": "string",
"value": "e16edcf9-6a10-4bc7-98e2-a33361aeb857"
}
},
{
"key": "provider-provisioningGroupId",
"value": {
"type": "string",
"value": "cccd7a7e-5283-416b-beb0-45eb4e924dcb"
}
},
{
"key": "requestedFor",
"value": {
"type": "string",
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