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Table Of Contents
- Programming Guide
- Contents
- vRealize Automation Programming Guide
- Updated Information
- 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
- Requesting a Machine By Type
- Request a Machine
- Syntax for Listing Shared and Private Catalog Items
- Syntax for Finding a Catalog Item by Name
- Syntax for Locating the Blueprint Values Required to Construct a Machine Request
- Syntax for Constructing a JSON File For a Machine Request
- Syntax for Requesting a Machine
- Syntax for Viewing All of Your Requests
- Syntax for Finding a Resource by its Request ID
- Syntax for Viewing the Details of a Machine Request
- Request a vCloud Air Machine
- Request an Amazon Machine
- Request a Machine
- Approve a Machine Request
- List Provisioned Resources
- Reprovision a Machine Resource
- 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
- Create a Tenant
- Filtering and Formatting REST API Information
- Related Tools and Documentation
Prerequisites
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Log in to vRealize Automation as a fabric group administrator.
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Verify that the host name and fully qualified domain name of the vRealize Automation instance are
available.
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If you are not using the API Explorer, verify that you have a valid HTTP bearer token that matches
your login credentials. See Chapter 2 REST API Authentication.
Procedure
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Get business group ID for a vRealize Automation reservation with the reservation service.
insecure -H "Accept:application/json"
-H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
https://$host/identity/api/tenants/qe/subtenants
The following JSON output is returned based on the command input.
{
"links": [],
"content": [{
"@type": "Subtenant",
"id": "7d7dbb19-d2dc-44a3-9fc2-7435552c8a05",
"name": "Development",
"description": " Development ",
"subtenantRoles": null,
"extensionData": {
"entries": [{
"key": "iaas-manager-emails",
"value": {
"type": "string",
"value": "user1@mycompany.com"
}
}]
},
"tenant": "qe"
},
{
"@type": "Subtenant",
"id": "ade5b8d3-decf-405e-bd0b-297f976ef721",
"name": "Finance",
"description": "Finance",
"subtenantRoles": null,
"extensionData": {
"entries": [{
"key": "iaas-manager-emails",
"value": {
"type": "string",
"value": " user1@mycompany.com "
}
}]
},
"tenant": "qe"
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