7.0
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
Prerequisites
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Log in to vRealize Automation with an appropriate role. For example: Software Architect, Application
Architect, Infrastructure Architecture or some combination of these depending on the need.
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Verify that the host name and fully qualified domain name of the vRealize Automation instance are
available.
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Verify that there is a valid HTTP bearer token that matches your login credentials. See Chapter 3
REST API Authentication.
Procedure
1 Use the following command to import a 6.2.x package into vRealize Automation 7.0.
curl --insecure -X POST -H"Authorization: Bearer $token"-H"Content-Type:
multipart/form-data"-F"file=@XaaSContent.zip"-F"prefix=prefix_"-
F"prefixOnlyConflicting=true"' https://$host/advanced-designer-
service/api/content/bundles'
2 Use the following command to export an XaaS package as a .zip file.
curl -X PUT -H"Authorization: Bearer $token"-H"Content-Type: application/json"-
d'{"jsonAccepted" : true, "tenantId" : "qe", "data" : [] }''
https://$host/advanced-designer-service/api/content/bundles/filters'
Export XaaS Content
You can use the REST API content management service to export a package containing content as a .zip
file.
Input
Table 4‑22. XaaS Import Input Parameters
Name Parameter
tenantId Identifies the tenant associated with the export package.
data Information about the export package. Includes the following:
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entityType
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id
jsonAccepted Valid values are true or false.
Output
Example Curl Command
The following command exports a package containing content as a .zip file at the specified location.
curl -X PUT -H "Authorization: Bearer $token"-H"Content-Type: application/json"-
d'{"jsonAccepted" : true, "tenantId" : "qe", "data" : [] }'' https://$host/advanced-
designer-service/api/content/bundles/filters'
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