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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
Filtering and Formatting REST
API Information 4
You can filter and format your vRealize Automation REST API command line and command line output.
You can use filters in your command line to limit JSON output to specific conditions. For example, you can
use a filter in a catalog item request to display only catalog items that contain a specific catalog ID. Or
you can use the requestID resource call to format the output of a command that displays request status.
You can also use an Odata equivalent to format that same information For details, see Syntax for Finding
a Catalog Item by Name.
Note You must URL encode all filter parameters when using Curl commands.
You can also reduce command line errors by using a JSON formatter to validate the JSON data and
present it in an easy-to-read format.
You can use command line options or JSON formatting tools, such as Open Data Protocol (OData), to
control the JSON results of your vRealize Automation REST API commands.
To simplify your JSON output, consider using command line options or a to filter out unnecessary data
and display only the information that you are interested in, such as the following information categories:
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Published catalog items
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Request status
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Provisioned machine identifiers
For information about available pagination, sorting, and filtering options for any given command, see the
Tips option on the REST API Reference landing page.
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