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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
Approve a Machine Request
You can use a sequence of REST API workitem service commands to approve a machine request.
Prerequisites
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Log in to vRealize Automation as an approver with at least one of the following qualifications:
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You are designated as an approver in an approval policy.
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You belong to a group which has been designated as an approval group in an approval policy.
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You are designated as a delegate for someone who is an approver.
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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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If you are not using the API Explorer, verify that you have a valid HTTP bearer token that matches
your login credentials. See Chapter 3 REST API Authentication.
Procedure
1 List all available work item IDs.
curl --insecure -H "Content-Type: application/json"
-H "Authorization: Bearer $token”
https://$host/workitem-service/api/workitems
2 Get details for a specific work item ID.
For example, get the details for work item 5e3e9519-78ea-4409-a52c-e4aa3bc56511.
curl --insecure -H "Content-Type: application/json"
-H "Authorization: Bearer $token”
https://$host/workitem-service/api/workitems/5e3e9519-78ea-4409-a52c-e4aa3bc56511
3 Construct a JSON file that contains the work item ID information that you need to approve a machine
request.
a Copy the appropriate JSON input file template to a new file in an XML editor that maintains
formatting.
b Substitute the input variables in the template with the values you obtained for your specific work
item ID, for example 5e3e9519-78ea-4409-a52c-e4aa3bc56511.
c Save the file with a new name, for example, approve.json.
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