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Table Of Contents
- Programming Guide
- Contents
- vRealize Automation Programming Guide
- Updated Information
- Overview of the vRealize Automation REST API
- REST API Authentication
- Creating a Tenant
- Prerequisites for Creating a Tenant
- Create a Tenant With Parameters Inline
- Create a Tenant With a JSON File
- Identity Service Examples for Creating 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
- Requesting a Machine
- Approving a Machine Request
- Listing Provisioned Resources
- Managing Provisioned Deployments
- Working with Reservations
- Prerequisites for 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
- Service Examples for Working with Reservations
- Syntax for Displaying a List of Reservations
- Syntax for Displaying a Schema Definition for a vSphere Reservation
- Syntax for Displaying a Schema Definition for an Amazon Reservation
- Syntax for Displaying a Schema Definition for a vCloud Air Reservation
- Syntax for Getting the Business Group ID for a Reservation
- Syntax for Getting a Compute Resource for a Reservation
- Syntax for Getting Resources Schema for a vSphere Reservation
- Syntax for Getting Resources Schema for an Amazon Reservation
- Syntax for Getting Resources Schema for a vCloud Air Reservation
- Syntax for Creating a vSphere Reservation
- Syntax for Creating an Amazon Reservation
- Syntax for Creating a vCloud Air Reservation
- Syntax for Verifying a Reservation and Getting Reservation Details
- Syntax for Displaying a List of Supported Reservation Types
- Syntax for Updating a Reservation
- Syntax for Deleting a Reservation
- Working with Reservation Policies
- Working with Key Pairs
- Working with Network Profiles
- Getting a List of Available IP Ranges
- Importing and Exporting Content
- Understanding Blueprint Schema
- Prerequisites for Importing and Exporting Content
- List Supported Content Types Example
- List Available Content Example
- Filter Content by Content Type Example
- Create a Package for Export Example
- List Packages in the Content Service Example
- Export a Package Example
- Validate a Content Bundle Before Importing example
- Import a Package Example
- Export XaaS Content Example
- Import XaaS Content Example
- Related Tools and Documentation
- Filtering and Formatting REST API Information
Configure the Duration of an HTTP Bearer Token
You set the duration of HTTP bearer tokens in the /etc/vcac/security.properties file on the
vRealize Automation appliance.
The effective duration or lifetime of an HTTP bearer token depends on the duration of its corresponding
SAML token, which the SSO server creates at request time. An HTTP bearer token expires when it
reaches the end of its configured duration, or at the end of the configured duration of the SAML token,
whichever comes first. For example, if the configured duration is three days for the HTTP bearer token
and two days for the SAML token, the HTTP bearer token expires in two days. A configuration setting on
the SSO server determines the duration of SAML tokens.
Prerequisites
n
Log in to the vRealize Automation appliance with SSH as root. The password is the one you specified
when you deployed the appliance.
n
The /etc/vcac/security.properties file on the appliance must be editable.
Procedure
1 Open the /etc/vcac/security.properties file for editing.
2 Add the following lines to the file, where N is an integer specifying the duration of the token in hours.
identity.basic.token.lifetime.hours=N
#The number is in hours.
3 Save and close the file.
4 Log out of the vRealize Automation appliance.
The new value applies the next time someone requests an HTTP bearer token.
Request an HTTP Bearer Token
You use an HTTP bearer token to authenticate a vRealize Automation REST API consumer request.
A consumer request must specify the correct component registry service and resource. For example, the
URL to obtain an HTTP bearer token must specify the identity service and token resource.
The token expires in 24 hours by default. See Configure the Duration of an HTTP Bearer Token for
information on how to set the duration.
For details regarding input, output, and response codes, see Syntax for Requesting an HTTP Bearer
Token.
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