Administrative Operations; Summary Of Administrative Requests - VMware VCLOUD API 1.0 - API Programming Manual

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Administrative Operations

The VMware vCloud API supports a variety of objects and operations that an organization administrator or
other privileged user can use to automate tasks associated with provisioning organizations and users, and
with allocation of resources to organization vDCs.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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"Summary of Administrative Requests" on page 91
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"Administrator Credentials and Privileges" on page 93
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"Administrative Objects and URLs" on page 93
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"Get an Administrative View of a Cloud" on page 93
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"Organization Administration" on page 94
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"Network Administration" on page 99
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"vDC Administration" on page 102
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"Catalog Administration" on page 107
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"User Administration" on page 110
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"Group Administration" on page 113
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"Role Administration" on page 114

Summary of Administrative Requests

Table 6‐1 summarizes administrative requests supported in this release. The table uses the following
conventions:
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API‐URL is a URL of the form http://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.0
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id is an integer
Table 6-1. Summary of Administrative Requests
Operation
Get an Administrative View of a
Cloud
Create an Organization
Get an Administrative View of an
Organization
Modify an Organization
List All Tasks Owned by an
Organization
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Request
GET API‐URL/admin
POST API‐URL/admin/orgs
GET API‐URL/admin/org/id
PUT API‐URL/admin/org/id
GET API‐URL/tasksList/id
Request Body Response
None VCloud
AdminOrg AdminOrg
None AdminOrg
AdminOrg AdminOrg
None TasksList
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