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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
Example Curl Command
This example uses the 'DukesBankApp.zip' - which is out-of-the-box content provided on the
vRealize Automation virtual appliance. You can copy the le from /usr/lib/vcac/tools/initial-
config/sample-oob-content/DukesBankApp.zip using WinSCP (Windows) or scp (Mac).
$curl --insecure -s -H" Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
https://$host/content-management-service/api/packages/validate -F "file=@DukesBankApp.zip"
Example: JSON Output
The validation output displays the validation status of each content item within the bundle.
{
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportResults": [
{
"contentId": "Apache_LB",
"contentName": "Apache_LB",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
},
{
"contentId": "MySql",
"contentName": "MySql",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
},
{
"contentId": "JBossAppServer",
"contentName": "JBossAppServer",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
},
{
"contentId": "Dukes-Bank-DB-setup",
"contentName": "Dukes-Bank-DB-setup",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
},
{
"contentId": "Dukes_Bank_App",
"contentName": "Dukes_Bank_App",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
},
{
"contentId": "DukesBankApplication",
"contentName": "DukesBankApplication",
"contentTypeId": "composite-blueprint",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
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