Performing Day 2 operations using
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
APIs
Last Updated January 26, 2025

After you have successfully installed or imported products, you can use the
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
APIs to perform Day 2 operations.
For the
VMware Aria Suite
products and versions that you can update, see in the
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
product documentation.

Prerequisites for Day 2 Operations

All Day 2 operations include the following common prerequisites:
  • Verify that you have a MyVMware account. The licenses, certificates, and products that you can update are associated with your MyVMware account.
    The support portal is now athttps://support.broadcom.com/
  • Verify that the appliance name and fully qualified domain name of the
    VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
    instance are available.
  • Verify that the URL variable is assigned.
    url='https://LCM-Hostname'
Some tasks also include a prerequisite to obtain your environment ID and product ID. To find the environment ID and assign the
environmentId
and
productId
variables, perform the following steps.
  1. List all environment IDs.
    curl -X GET \
     '$url/lcm/lcops/api/v2/environments' \
     -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    | jq "."
  2. Examine the response to locate your environment ID as in the following example that includes a product ID for
    VMware Aria Automation
    .
    ...  
     {
       "environmentId": "dc902745-8232-4820-9479-6921edb86cf7",
       "environmentName": "vRS Example Environment",
       ...
       },
       "products": [
         {
           "id": "vra",
           "version": "8.0.1",
           "patchHistory": null,
           "snapshotHistory": null,
           "logHistory": null,
           "clusterVIP": null,
    ...
  3. Assign variables for the the
    environment ID
    variable and
    product ID
    .
    environmentId = "dc902745-8232-4820-9479-6921edb86cf7"
    productId = "vra"
Any additional prerequisites are specified with the individual tasks.