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Table Of Contents
- Programming Guide
- Contents
- vRealize Automation Programming Guide
- 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
- Get a List of Available IP Ranges for an IPAM Provider
- 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
- Related Tools and Documentation
- Filtering and Formatting REST API Information
- Index
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Syntax for Creating a Package for Export
You can use the REST API content management service to create a package that contains content for export
use.
Creating a Package with Content
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For import or export purposes you must create a package to contain the desired content.
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The package is a logical unit that enables you to piece together dierent content elements.
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You can add multiple content IDs to the package.
A package represents an entity that you can export or import via the content management service. A set of
references to the content instances can be bundled together as a package.
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