Capture Content

To capture content from an existing Content Management endpoint, you make a POST request. More than one type of content can be captured at the same time.

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'

Verify that you have added at least one content endpoint.

The following procedure shows how to capture content from a

VMware Aria Operations

endpoint and how to list the dependencies of that content.

You list the dependencies because you want to ensure that the package you test or deploy later includes all required content.

Assign the reference ID of an existing

VMware Aria Operations

endpoint to a variable name.

vROpsEndpoint = '<referenceID>'

As a developer, capture the content from the

VMware Aria Operations

endpoint.

In this example, the content you are capturing includes:

Operations-Alert

Operations-Report

Parameters to capture dependencies with

"includeDependencies":true

and to mark the content as production ready with

"productionReady":true

curl -X POST \
  '$url/lcm/cms/api/v1/contents/pipelines' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "stages": [
      {
        "comment": "test-capture",
        "endpointIds": ["{$vROEndpoint}"],
        "tagNames": ["test-tag"],
        "contents": [
          {
            "contentDetails": [
              {
                "contentName": "A PCIe error occurred during system boot, but the error is recoverable - [objId=AlertDefinition-VMWARE-RecoverablePCIeErrorAlert]"
              }
            ],
            "contentType": "Operations-Alert"
          },
          {
            "contentDetails": [
              {
                "contentName": "Capacity Report - Datastores - [objId=59c32c79-adea-4c58-bb6f-56daa23bcb5e]"
              }
            ],
            "contentType": "Operations-Report"
          }
        ],
        "contentVersionIds": [],
        "stage": "CAPTURE",
        "includeDependencies": true,
        "productionReady": true
      }
    ]
}' | jq "."

Open the UI and copy the content-version-id from the URL. In this example, the content-version-id is 4b014331-c496-4eef-92a4-4061f69a94a6.

In this example, the content-version-id is 4b014331-c496-4eef-92a4-4061f69a94a6.

Capture Content URL for content-version-id

To retrieve the dependencies of your captured content, enter the following command with the content-version-id from the URL.

curl -X GET \
  '$url/lcm/cms/api/v1/contents/versions/4b014331-c496-4eef-92a4-4061f69a94a6/dependency-artifacts' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' | jq "."

A snippet of the response lists dependencies for the content.

{
    "contentVersionId": "4b014331-c496-4eef-92a4-4061f69a94a6",
    "dependencyArtifacts": [
        {
            "contentVersionId": "e643b796-f49b-4084-86e9-70be9fd13d14",
            "contentName": "Create Disk-vro",
            "contentType": "Orchestrator-Package",
            "files": [
                {
                    "file": "/vco/content/Create Disk-vro-manifest.json",
                    "fileId": "659c47a6-99e3-4439-8f6e-17a0be02de22",
                    "sourceControlFile": "Orchestrator-Package/Create Disk-vro/Create Disk-vro-manifest.json",
                    "sourceControlReference": null
                },
                {
                    "file": "/vco/content/Workflow/Library/AMQP/Unbind.element_info.xml",
                    "fileId": "5b3d56a5-ec14-4663-b18c-6840fae80259",
                    "sourceControlFile": "Orchestrator-Package/Create Disk-vro/Workflow/Library/AMQP/Unbind.element_info.xml",
                    "sourceControlReference": null
                },
                {
                    "file": "/vco/content/Workflow/Library/AMQP/Unbind.xml",
                    "fileId": "5ec353c6-2962-4ff6-a121-37927d446e76",
                    "sourceControlFile": "Orchestrator-Package/Create Disk-vro/Workflow/Library/AMQP/Unbind.xml",
                    "sourceControlReference": null
                }
                ...
                {
                    "file": "/vco/content/Workflow/Content Management Tests/Orchestrator-Package/Common/Check Package Exists.element_info.xml",
                    "fileId": "1b215f31-446f-4ba6-8e92-a9bd8462cd67",
                    "sourceControlFile": "Orchestrator-Package/Create Disk-vro/Workflow/Content Management Tests/Orchestrator-Package/Common/Check Package Exists.element_info.xml",
                    "sourceControlReference": null
                }

            ]
        }
    ]
}

The response lists all the additional content required to correctly deploy the captured content to another endpoint of the same type.

Managing Your Content Using Content Management APIs

Content feedback and comments

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