Performing Day 2 operations usingVMware Aria Suite Lifecycle APIs
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
APIsAfter 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 theVMware 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 theVMware Aria Suite Lifecycleinstance 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.
- List all environment IDs.curl -X GET \ '$url/lcm/lcops/api/v2/environments' \ -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ | jq "."
- Examine the response to locate your environment ID as in the following example that includes a product ID forVMware 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, ...
- Assign variables for the theenvironment IDvariable andproduct ID.environmentId = "dc902745-8232-4820-9479-6921edb86cf7" productId = "vra"
Any additional prerequisites are specified with the individual tasks.