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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
- Request a Machine
- Approve a Machine Request
- List Provisioned Resources
- Manage Provisioned Deployments
- 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
- Import and Export Content
- Syntax for Listing Supported Content Types
- Syntax for Listing Available Content
- Syntax for Filtering Content by Content Type
- Syntax for Creating a Package for Export
- Syntax for Listing Packages in the Content Service
- Syntax for Exporting a Package
- Syntax for Validating a Content Bundle Before Importing
- Syntax for Importing a Package
- Understanding Blueprint Schema
- Manage XaaS Content with Import and Export
- Create a Tenant
- Filtering and Formatting REST API Information
- Related Tools and Documentation
REST API Use Cases 4
Available use cases provide the prerequisite, command line options and format, and sample results to
help you perform a variety of vRealize Automation functions, such as requesting a machine or creating a
reservation.
You can find information about all of the available vRealize Automation REST API calls in the REST API
Reference zip file located in the vRealize Automation Documentation Center. The use cases provide
samples of calls that you might commonly use and descriptions of example inputs and outputs relative to
those calls.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Create a Tenant
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Request a Machine
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Approve a Machine Request
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List Provisioned Resources
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Manage Provisioned Deployments
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Working with Reservations
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Working with Reservation Policies
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Working with Key Pairs
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Working with Network Profiles
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Import and Export Content
Create a Tenant
You can use the REST API identity service to create a vRealize Automation tenant and perform related
functions. Perform the tasks required to create a tenant with the REST API in sequence. For information
about creating and working with tenants and roles by using thevRealize Automation application user
interface, see the Tenant Administration and IaaS Configuration documentation.
Prerequisites
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Log in to vRealize Automation as a system administrator and a tenant administrator.
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