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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
Input Description
$token Specifies a valid HTTP bearer token with necessary credentials.
HTTP body The HTTP body describes the reservation to create and calls the REST
API used to create the reservation.
Compose the HTTP body using one of the following methods:
n
Copy the HTTP body from the JSON output from this example and
edit the applicable field values to compose the HTTP body input for
the command line.
n
Use the API commands in Syntax for Verifying a Reservation and
Getting Reservation Details, remove the appropriate ID field from the
HTTP response, and edit the field values to compose the HTTP body
input for the command line.
Output
The output URL contains the new reservation ID.
Property Description
status When the reservation is successfully created, the HTTP response status is
201 created.
Header.Location The HTTP response contains a Location attribute that is formatted as
https://$host /reservation-service/api/reservations/$reservationId.
$reservationId Specifies the new reservation ID.
Example: curl Command
The following sample command creates a vSphere reservation. The HTTP body is included as part of the
command line input.
curl --insecure -H "Accept:application/json"
-H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
https://$host/reservation-service/api/reservations -d
“
{
"name": "TestCreateReservation",
"reservationTypeId": "Infrastructure.Reservation.Virtual.vSphere",
"tenantId": "qe",
"subTenantId": "ef58f604-528d-4441-a219-4725bead629b",
"enabled": true,
"priority": 3,
"reservationPolicyId": "b71c3a5f-087a-4d9e-9a56-fab785a3d128",
"alertPolicy": {
"enabled": true,
"frequencyReminder": 20,
"emailBgMgr": false,
"recipients": ["test1@mycompany.com",
"test2@mycompany.com"],
"alerts": [{
"alertPercentLevel": 10,
"referenceResourceId": "storage",
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