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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
curl Command
The following command validates a content bundle prior to importing it. This example uses the
DukesBankApp.zip file which is provided on the vRealize Automation virtual appliance. You can copy the
file from /usr/lib/vcac/tools/initial-config/sample-oob-content/DukesBankApp.zip using
WinSCP (Windows) or scp (Mac).
$curl --insecure -s -H" Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
https://$vRA/content-management-service/api/packages/validate -F "file=@DukesBankApp.zip"
JSON Output
The validation output displays the validation status of each content item within the bundle.
{
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportResults": [
{
"contentId": "Apache_LB",
"contentName": "Apache_LB",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
},
{
"contentId": "MySql",
"contentName": "MySql",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
},
{
"contentId": "JBossAppServer",
"contentName": "JBossAppServer",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
},
{
"contentId": "Dukes-Bank-DB-setup",
"contentName": "Dukes-Bank-DB-setup",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
},
{
"contentId": "Dukes_Bank_App",
"contentName": "Dukes_Bank_App",
"contentTypeId": "software-component",
"contentImportStatus": "SUCCESS",
"contentImportErrors": null
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