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Table 1‑1. vRealize Automation REST API Services (Continued)
Service Description
IP Address Management Service Allocate and deallocate IP addresses from IP address management
(IPAM) providers.
Licensing Service Retrieve permissions and post serial keys.
Management Service (Reclamation 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 seings for
creating and conguring NAT and routed networks; creating load
balancers; and adding and conguring security groups, security
tags and security policies for application components.
Notication Service Congure and send notications for several types of events such as
the successful completion of a catalog request or a required
approval.
Orchestration Gateway Service Provides a gateway to VMware Realize Orchestrator (vRO) for
services running on vRealize Automation. By using the gateway,
consumers of the API can access a vRO instance, and initiate
workows or script actions without having to deal directly with the
vRO APIs.
Extensibility (Plug-in) Service Retrieve, create, update, and delete a resource. Retrieve an
extension. Retrieve license notications.
Portal Service Retrieve, create, update, and delete a portal resource.
Properties Service Manage custom properties, property groups, and property
denitions. Properties specify items that can be added to blueprints
to trigger vRealize Orchestrator actions.
Reservation Service Retrieve, create, update, and delete a reservation or reservation
policy.
Software Services Triggers the execution life cycle of software components using the
software agent, registers software agents, and manages the
creation, modication and deletion of software componentsoftware
component types, software resource requests, and nodes
(machines).
vRA Orchestrator Service Manage vRealize Orchestrator actions, tasks, packages, and
workows. Browse system and plug-in inventories.
Work Item Service Retrieve, create, update, complete, cancel, and delete a work item.
Also retrieve form data, metadata, detail forms, and submission
forms from service providers.
XaaS Service Manages XaaS elements such as forms, endpoints, XaaS blueprints,
tenants, vRealize Orchestrator imports, workows, and work items.
The advanced designer service selection on the vRealize Automation
API Reference landing page selects the documentation for the XaaS
service.
When a service request contains a resource URL, the rst part of the URL identies the service and the last
part identies the resource. For example, the following resource URL identies 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 API Reference,” on page 357 and the vRealize Automation API Reference in your
vRealize Automation installation.
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