VMware VCLOUD API 1.0 - API

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TheVMwarevCloudAPIsupportsavarietyofobjectsandoperationsthatanorganizationadministratoror
otherprivilegedusercanusetoautomatetasksassociatedwithprovisioningorganizationsandusers,and
withallocationofresourcestoorganizationvDCs.
Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
 “SummaryofAdministrativeRequests”onpage 91
 “AdministratorCredentialsandPrivileges”onpage 93
 “AdministrativeObjectsandURLs”onpage 93
 “GetanAdministrativeViewofaCloud”onpage 93
 “OrganizationAdministration”onpage 94
 “NetworkAdministration”onpage 99
 “vDCAdministration”onpage 102
 “CatalogAdministration”onpage 107
 “UserAdministration”onpage 110
 “GroupAdministration”onpage 113
 “RoleAdministration”onpage 114
Summary of Administrative Requests
Table 6‐1summarizesadministrativerequestssupportedinthisrelease.Thetableusesthefollowing
conventions:
 API‐URLisaURLoftheformhttp://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0
 idisaninteger
Administrative Operations
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Table 6-1. Summary of Administrative Requests
Operation Request Request Body Response
GetanAdministrativeViewofa
Cloud
GETAPI‐URL/admin None VCloud
CreateanOrganization POSTAPI‐URL/admin/orgs AdminOrg AdminOrg
GetanAdministrativeViewofan
Organization
GETAPI‐URL/admin/org/id None AdminOrg
ModifyanOrganization PUTAPI‐URL/admin/org/id AdminOrg AdminOrg
ListAllTasksOwnedbyan
Organization
GETAPI‐URL/tasksList/id None TasksList