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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
REST API Authentication 2
In the REST API, vRealize Automation requires HTTP bearer tokens in request headers for authentication
of consumer requests. A consumer request applies to tasks that you can perform in the
vRealize Automation console, such as requesting a machine.
To acquire an HTTP bearer token, you authenticate with an identity service that manages the
communication with the SSO server. The identity service returns an HTTP bearer token that you include
in all request headers until the token expires, or you delete it. An HTTP bearer token expires in 24 hours
by default, but you can configure the token with a different duration.
Using HTTP Bearer Tokens
You use HTTP bearer tokens for tasks that you can also perform in the vRealize Automation console. You
create a request header with the curl command or with some other utility.
For information about requesting a bearer token, see the Identity option on the REST API Reference
landing page.
You use POST, HEAD, and DELETE methods to manage HTTP bearer tokens.
Method URL Description
POST /tokens Authenticate the user with the identity service /tokens and
generate a new token.
HEAD /tokens/tokenID Validate the token tokenID.
DELETE /tokens/tokenID Delete the token tokenID.
The root URL for HTTP bearer calls is https://$vra_server/identity/api/tokens.
Configure the Duration of an HTTP Bearer Token
You set the duration of HTTP bearer tokens in the /etc/vcac/security.properties file on the
vRealize Automation appliance.
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