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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: JSON Output
The following JSON output is returned based on the command input.
{
"links": [],
"content": [
{
"@type": "ConsumerEntitledCatalogItemView",
"links": [
{
"@type": "link",
"rel": "GET: Request Template",
"href": "https://$host/catalog-
service/api/consumer/entitledCatalogItems/7c8275d6-1bd6-452a-97c4-d6c053e4baa4/requests/template"
},
{
"@type": "link",
"rel": "POST: Submit Request",
"href": "https://$host/catalog-
service/api/consumer/entitledCatalogItems/7c8275d6-1bd6-452a-97c4-d6c053e4baa4/requests"
}
],
"entitledOrganizations": [
{
"tenantRef": "mycompany",
"tenantLabel": "mycompany",
"subtenantRef": "c0683388-6db2-4cb5-9033-b24d15ad3766",
"subtenantLabel": "Demo Group"
}
],
"catalogItemId": "7c8275d6-1bd6-452a-97c4-d6c053e4baa4",
"name": "Linux",
"description": "Linux blueprint for API demo",
"isNoteworthy": false,
"dateCreated": "2015-07-29T03:54:28.141Z",
"lastUpdatedDate": "2015-07-29T12:46:56.405Z",
"iconId": "cafe_default_icon_genericCatalogItem",
"catalogItemTypeRef": {
"id": "com.vmware.csp.component.cafe.composition.blueprint",
"label": "Composite Blueprint"
},
"serviceRef": {
"id": "057d4095-95f1-47da-b14b-641ac9010c97",
"label": "Infrastructure Services"
},
"outputResourceTypeRef": {
"id": "composition.resource.type.deployment",
"label": "Deployment"
}
}
],
"metadata": {
"size": 20,
"totalElements": 1,
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