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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
Importing and Exporting
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You use the content management service to import and export content such as blueprints, software
components, and other artifacts between vRealize Automation systems.
vRealize Automation customers often experiment with system artifacts in their development or staging
deployments. When ready, they can use the content management service to move the artifacts to
production environments or between different tenants.
Note You cannot import or export approval policies or entitlements. Also, you cannot import or export
any content that is in a draft state.
For consistency with other service examples, each example lists a curl command. However the content
management service provides a convenient mechanism for moving artifacts between systems using the
CloudClient interface. With CloudClient, there is no need to set heading values, including the
Authorization header. The $vRA//$servicename/api is eliminated from the URL and the service name
becomes a separate parameter. For example, consumer/entitled
CatalogItems/{id}/request/template. See Using vRealize CloudClient.
XaaS services are integrated with the content management service, and all commands that work with
other content types also work with XaaS content to migrate XaaS content into vRealize Automation.
The same set prerequisites apply to each example.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Understanding Blueprint Schema
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Prerequisites for Importing and Exporting Content
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List Supported Content Types Example
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List Available Content Example
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Filter Content by Content Type Example
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Create a Package for Export Example
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List Packages in the Content Service Example
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Export a Package Example
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Validate a Content Bundle Before Importing example
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