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Table 1‑1. vRealize Automation REST API Services (Continued)
Service Description
Event Broker Service Provide a central location and a consistent way of recording events and
querying for events.
Forms Service Used internally by the vRealize Automation system to create, read,
update and delete (perform CRUD operations on) request forms for XaaS
components.
IaaS Proxy Provider Service Run a proxy service that acts as a bridge between the service catalog
and the IaaS provider to call other services, such as the catalog service,
composition service, reservation service, and event broker service.
Identity Service Manage tenants, business groups, SSO and custom groups, users, and
identity stores.
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 settings for
creating and configuring NAT and routed networks; creating load
balancers; and adding and configuring security groups, security tags and
security policies for application components.
Notification Service Configure and send notifications 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 workflows 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 notifications.
Placement Service Provides vRealize Automation with recommendations for the placement
of deployments. With cluster health information from an external service
such as vRealize Operations Manager, the service can recommend
reservations to use for the provisioning of blueprint components.
Portal Service Retrieve, create, update, and delete a portal resource.
Properties Service Manage custom properties, property groups, and property definitions.
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,
modification and deletion of software component, software component
types, software resource requests, and nodes (machines).
vRA Orchestrator Service Manage vRealize Orchestrator actions, tasks, packages, and workflows.
Browse system and plug-in inventories.
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