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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
Syntax for Constructing a JSON File For a Machine Request
You can use the REST API catalog service to construct a JSON file for use in a command line machine
request.
Prerequisites
n
Obtain the information that you need to add to your JSON file. See Syntax for Locating the Blueprint
Values Required to Construct a Machine Request.
n
Use an XML editor to create your JSON file.
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",
"value": "fritz@example.mycompany.com"
}
},
{
"key": "provider-VirtualMachine.CPU.Count",
"value": {
"type": "integer",
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