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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
Parameter Description
$top Specifies the number of returned entries from the top of the response (total number per page in
relation to skip).
$skip Specifies the number of entries to skip.
filter Contains a Boolean expression to determine if a particular entry is included in the response.
Output
The command output contains property names and values based on the command input parameters.
Table 4‑7. Output Parameters
Property Description
resourceId The unique identifier of the resource.
iconId Specifies an icon for this request based on the requested object type.
name The user friendly name of the resource.
description An extended user friendly description of the resource.
status The status of the resource. For example, On, Off, etc.
catalogItemId The identifier of the catalog item associated with this provisioned resource.
catalogItemLabel The label of the catalog item associated with this provisioned resource.
requestId The unique identifier of the request that created this provisioned resource.
businessGroupId The unique identifier of the business group that owns this resource.
tenantId The unique identifier of the tenant that owns this resource.
owners The owner of this resource.
resourceType The type identifier of this resource. For example, Virtual Machine.
parentResourceId The unique identifier of the parent resource. Used for child resources of a multi-machine
resource.
hasChildren Returns trun if this resource has child resources. Used if this is a multi-machine resource.
dateCreated The date and time at which the resource was created.
lastUpdated The date and time at which the resource was most recently modified.
lease The current lease of the resource.
costs An optional rate card of the costs and charges levied against the resource.
costToDate An optional rate card of the existing costs and charges levied against the resource.
totalCost An optional rate card of the costs and charges levied for the entire lease period.
data The extended, provider defined properties of the resource.
Example Curl Command
This example retrieves all children of the resource with an ID of c4d3db3e-e397-44ff-
a1c9-0ecebdba12f4%27.
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