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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
Requesting a Machine 4
You use the catalog service to perform tasks related to requesting a machine.
The catalog service is comprised APIs for the consumer, service providers, and service administrators. It
is designed to be used by consumers and providers of the service catalog. For example, a consumer
would request a catalog item such as a machine. The service provider would fulfill the request.
The catalog service includes Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) links. The links
function as templates that you can use to complete common tasks supported by the API.
For example, if you submit a template request for a given context, such as: catalog-
service/api/consumer/entitledCatalogItems/dc808d12-3786-4f7c-b5a1-
d5f997c8ad66/requests/template. You use the returned template, either as-is or modified, to create a
request that you POST or PUT to the target API, such as: catalog-
service/api/consumer/entitledCatalogItems/dc808d12-3786-4f7c-b5a1-
d5f997c8ad66/requests.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Request a Machine
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Catalog Service Examples for Requesting a Machine
Request a Machine
To request a machine, you first list all shared catalog items to find the machine, then make the request for
that item using a template.
Prerequisites
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Log in to vRealize Automation as a consumer and current business group user.
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Verify that the appliance name and fully qualified domain name of the vRealize Automation instance
are available.
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Verify that you have a valid HTTP bearer token that matches your login credentials. See Chapter 2
REST API Authentication.
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