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TheVMwarevCloudAPIsupportsavarietyofobjectsandoperationsthatanorganizationadministratoror
otherprivilegedusercanusetoautomatetasksassociatedwithprovisioningorganizationsandusers,and
withallocationofresourcestoorganizationvDCs.
Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
“SummaryofAdministrativeRequests”onpage 91
“AdministratorCredentialsandPrivileges”onpage 93
“AdministrativeObjectsandURLs”onpage 93
“GetanAdministrativeViewofaCloud”onpage 93
“OrganizationAdministration”onpage 94
“NetworkAdministration”onpage 99
“vDCAdministration”onpage 102
“CatalogAdministration”onpage 107
“UserAdministration”onpage 110
“GroupAdministration”onpage 113
“RoleAdministration”onpage 114
Summary of Administrative Requests
Table 6‐1summarizesadministrativerequestssupportedinthisrelease.Thetableusesthefollowing
conventions:
API‐URLisaURLoftheformhttp://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0
idisaninteger
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Table 6-1. Summary of Administrative Requests
Operation Request Request Body Response
GetanAdministrativeViewofa
Cloud
GETAPI‐URL/admin None VCloud
CreateanOrganization POSTAPI‐URL/admin/orgs AdminOrg AdminOrg
GetanAdministrativeViewofan
Organization
GETAPI‐URL/admin/org/id None AdminOrg
ModifyanOrganization PUTAPI‐URL/admin/org/id AdminOrg AdminOrg
ListAllTasksOwnedbyan
Organization
GETAPI‐URL/tasksList/id None TasksList