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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
For example, for a vSphere, Amazon EC2, or vCloud reservation type schema definition, the following
permissibleValues field in the compute resource output indicates if the compute resource is available
and if it has any dependencies.
“permissibleValues": {"type": "dynamic","customAllowed": false, "dependencies": []}
Procedure
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Use the following command to get a compute resource.
Command to get a compute resource for vSphere reservation.
curl --insecure -H "Accept:application/json"
-H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
https://$host/reservation-service/api/data-
service/schema/Infrastructure.Reservation.Virtual.vSphere/default/computeResource/values -d “{}”
Command to get a compute resource for an Amazon EC2 reservation.
curl --insecure -H "Accept:application/json"
-H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
https://$host/reservation-service/api/data-
service/schema/Infrastructure.Reservation.Cloud.Amazon/default/computeResource/values -d “{}”
Example: curl Command for a vCloud reservation
Command to get a compute resource for a vCloud reservation.
curl --insecure -H "Accept:application/json"
-H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
https://$host/reservation-service/api/data-
service/schema/Infrastructure.Reservation.Cloud.vCloud/default/computeResource/values -d “{}”
The following JSON output is returned based on the command input.
JSON Output for a vSphere Reservation
{
"values": [{
"underlyingValue": {
"type": "entityRef",
"componentId": null,
"classId": "ComputeResource",
"id": "047e00f5-5424-4ed2-a751-4a334aeaff54",
"label": "VC51-Cluster"
},
"label": "VC51-Cluster"
},
{
"underlyingValue": {
"type": "entityRef",
"componentId": null,
"classId": "ComputeResource",
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