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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
Table 2‑1. vRealize Automation REST API Services (Continued)
Service Description
Management Service Retrieve work item forms, callbacks, and tasks. Manage endpoint details
including tenant, password, user name, and endpoint URL. Retrieve
performance metrics. Retrieve and cancel reclamation requests.
Network Service Access and manage application network and security settings for
creating and configuring NAT and routed networks; creating load
balancers; and adding and configuring security groups, security tags and
security policies for application components.
Notification Service Configure and send notifications for several types of events such as the
successful completion of a catalog request or a required approval.
Plug-in Service Retrieve, create, update, and delete a resource. Retrieve an extension.
Retrieve license notifications.
Portal Service Retrieve, create, update, and delete a portal resource.
Properties Service Manage custom properties, property groups, and property definitions.
Reservation Service Retrieve, create, update, and delete a reservation or reservation policy.
Software Services Manage software component types, software resource requests, and
nodes (machines).
vCO Service Manage vRealize Orchestrator actions, tasks, packages, and workflows.
Browse system and plug-in inventories.
WorkItem Service Retrieve, create, update, complete, cancel, and delete a work item. Also
retrieve form data, metadata, detail forms, and submission forms from
service providers.
When a service request contains a resource URL, the first part of the URL identifies the service and the
last part identifies the resource. For example, the following resource URL identifies the catalog service
and the providers resource:
https://$host/component-registry/api/services
For more information about all the vRealize Automation REST API service calls, see Using the vRealize
Automation REST API Reference and the REST API Reference in the vRealize Automation
Documentation Center at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcac-pubs.html.
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