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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
Unlinked Identity Store Error
If an identity store is not linked to the specified tenant, the response includes status code 400 such as in
the following output.
Command failed [Rest Error]: {Status code: 400}, {Error code: 90027} , {Error
Source: null}, {Error Msg: Cannot connect to the directory service.}, {System
Msg: 90027-Connection to directory service can’t be established}
To resolve the problem, correct the identity store and connection details in the JSON input file and rerun
the command.
Syntax for Searching LDAP or Active Directory for a User
GET /api/tenants/{tenantId}/principals/{userId} searches the configured LDAP directory,
Active Directory, or Native Active Directory for a user.
Input
Use the supported input parameters to control the command output.
Parameter Description
URL https://$vRA/identity/api/tenants/$tenantId/principals/$userId
$vRA Specifies the appliance name and fully qualified domain name, or IP address of the
vRealize Automation server.
$token Specifies a valid HTTP bearer token with necessary credentials.
$tenantId Specifies the ID of the tenant.
$userId Specifies the ID of the user in the form name@domain.
Output
The command output contains property names and values based on the command input parameters.
Parameter Description
Links Specifies an array of link objects, each of which contains the following parts:
n
rel: Specifies the name of the link.
n
Self refers to the object that was returned or requested. This parameter does not appear
when you query a single profile.
n
First, Previous, Next, and Last refer to corresponding pages of pageable lists.
n
Specifies the application or service that determines the other names.
n
href: Specifies the URL that produces the result.
@type Specifies the user name.
firstName Specifies the first name of the user.
lastName Specifies the last name of the user.
description Specifies the description of the user.
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