How to script a vRealize Automation 7 REST API request

As you may or may not know, vRealize Automation features a RESTful API to programmatically interface with the Cloud Management Portal. In this guide I will show you how to create a shell script to request a catalog item. You Continue reading How to script a vRealize Automation 7 REST API request

How to reindex the vRA7 Appliance Database

The vRealize Automation 7 appliance provides the UI and portal functionality for vRA (among other things). Behind the scenes it is running a vPostgres database to store information about approvals, catalog items and some logging. Over time the database tables Continue reading How to reindex the vRA7 Appliance Database

Where is the installable vRO client on vRA 7 appliance?

So you have downlaoded and installed the vRealize Automation 7 Appliance and now you want to start to work on some vRealize Orchestrator workflows. While you could just use the Java Client, there is also an installabled version available for Continue reading Where is the installable vRO client on vRA 7 appliance?

Requesting the VRA Developer Friendly Blueprint with curl

In my last post I showed you how to create the developer friendly blueprint in vRealize 7. In this guide we will show how to invoke the REST API to make this request. Before we get into the details it Continue reading Requesting the VRA Developer Friendly Blueprint with curl