NSX-T Data Center REST API

Create or update a group

If a group with the group-id is not already present, create a new group.
If it already exists, update the group.
Avoid creating groups with multiple MACAddressExpression and IPAddressExpression.
In future releases, group will be restricted to contain a single
MACAddressExpression and IPAddressExpression along with other expressions.
To group IPAddresses or MACAddresses, use nested groups instead of multiple
IPAddressExpressions/MACAddressExpression.
This API is available when using VMware Cloud (AWS, Dell-EMC, Outpost, Hyperscalers) or VMware NSX-T.

Request:

Method:

PUT

URI Path(s):

/policy/api/v1/infra/domains/<domain-id>/groups/<group-id>

Request Headers:

n/a

Query Parameters:

n/a

Request Body:

Group+

Group (schema)

Name	Description	Type	Notes
_create_time	Timestamp of resource creation	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_create_user	ID of the user who created this resource	string	Readonly
_last_modified_time	Timestamp of last modification	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_last_modified_user	ID of the user who last modified this resource	string	Readonly
_links	References related to this resource The server will populate this field when returing the resource. Ignored on PUT and POST.	array of ResourceLink	Readonly
_protection	Indicates protection status of this resource Protection status is one of the following: PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is not allowed to modify it. NOT_PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is allowed to modify it REQUIRE_OVERRIDE - the client who retrieved the entity is a super user and can modify it, but only when providing the request header X-Allow-Overwrite=true. UNKNOWN - the _protection field could not be determined for this entity.	string	Readonly
_revision	Generation of this resource config The _revision property describes the current revision of the resource. To prevent clients from overwriting each other's changes, PUT operations must include the current _revision of the resource, which clients should obtain by issuing a GET operation. If the _revision provided in a PUT request is missing or stale, the operation will be rejected.	int
_schema	Schema for this resource	string	Readonly
_self	Link to this resource	SelfResourceLink	Readonly
_system_owned	Indicates system owned resource	boolean	Readonly
children	subtree for this type within policy tree subtree for this type within policy tree containing nested elements.	array of ChildPolicyConfigResource (Abstract type: pass one of the following concrete types) ChildDnsSecurityProfileBindingMap ChildGroupDiscoveryProfileBindingMap ChildGroupMonitoringProfileBindingMap ChildPolicyFirewallFloodProtectionProfileBindingMap ChildPolicyFirewallSessionTimerProfileBindingMap
description	Description of this resource	string	Maximum length: 1024 Sortable
display_name	Identifier to use when displaying entity in logs or GUI Defaults to ID if not set	string	Maximum length: 255 Sortable
expression	Expression The expression list must follow below criteria: 1. A non-empty expression list, must be of odd size. In a list, with indices starting from 0, all non-conjunction expressions must be at even indices, separated by a conjunction expression at odd indices. 2. The total of ConditionExpression and NestedExpression in a list should not exceed 5. 3. The total of IPAddressExpression, MACAddressExpression, external IDs in an ExternalIDExpression and paths in a PathExpression must not exceed 500. 4. Each expression must be a valid Expression. See the definition of the Expression type for more information.	array of Expression (Abstract type: pass one of the following concrete types) Condition ConjunctionOperator ExternalIDExpression IPAddressExpression IdentityGroupExpression MACAddressExpression NestedExpression PathExpression
extended_expression	Extended Expression Extended Expression allows additional higher level context to be specified for grouping criteria. (e.g. user AD group) This field allow users to specified user context as the source of a firewall rule for IDFW feature. Current version only support a single IdentityGroupExpression. In the future, this might expand to support other conjunction and non-conjunction expression. The extended expression list must follow below criteria: 1. Contains a single IdentityGroupExpression. No conjunction expression is supported. 2. No other non-conjunction expression is supported, except for IdentityGroupExpression. 3. Each expression must be a valid Expression. See the definition of the Expression type for more information. 4. Extended expression are implicitly AND with expression. 5. No nesting can be supported if this value is used. 6. If a Group is using extended expression, this group must be the only member in the source field of an communication map.	array of Expression (Abstract type: pass one of the following concrete types) Condition ConjunctionOperator ExternalIDExpression IPAddressExpression IdentityGroupExpression MACAddressExpression NestedExpression PathExpression	Maximum items: 1
group_type	Indicates the group type. Group type can be specified during create and update of a group. Empty group type indicates a 'generic' group, ie group can include any entity from the valid GroupMemberType.	array of GroupTypes	Maximum items: 1
id	Unique identifier of this resource	string	Sortable
marked_for_delete	Indicates whether the intent object is marked for deletion Intent objects are not directly deleted from the system when a delete is invoked on them. They are marked for deletion and only when all the realized entities for that intent object gets deleted, the intent object is deleted. Objects that are marked for deletion are not returned in GET call. One can use the search API to get these objects.	boolean	Readonly Default: "False"
overridden	Indicates whether this object is the overridden intent object Global intent objects cannot be modified by the user. However, certain global intent objects can be overridden locally by use of this property. In such cases, the overridden local values take precedence over the globally defined values for the properties.	boolean	Readonly Default: "False"
parent_path	Path of its parent Path of its parent	string	Readonly
path	Absolute path of this object Absolute path of this object	string	Readonly
realization_id	A unique identifier assigned by the system for realizing intent This is a UUID generated by the system for realizing the entity object. In most cases this should be same as 'unique_id' of the entity. However, in some cases this can be different because of entities have migrated thier unique identifier to NSX Policy intent objects later in the timeline and did not use unique_id for realization. Realization id is helpful for users to debug data path to correlate the configuration with corresponding intent.	string	Readonly
reference	Indicates if the group is a reference. If true, indicates that this is a remote reference group. Such group will have span different from the its parent domain. Default value is false.	boolean	Readonly Default: "False"
relative_path	Relative path of this object Path relative from its parent	string	Readonly
resource_type	Must be set to the value Group	string
state	Realization state of this group	string	Enum: IN_PROGRESS, SUCCESS, FAILURE
tags	Opaque identifiers meaningful to the API user	array of Tag	Maximum items: 30
unique_id	A unique identifier assigned by the system This is a UUID generated by the GM/LM to uniquely identify entites in a federated environment. For entities that are stretched across multiple sites, the same ID will be used on all the stretched sites.	string	Readonly

Example Request:

PUT https://<policy-mgr>/policy/api/v1/infra/domains/vmc/groups/webgroup { "expression": [ { "member_type": "VirtualMachine", "value": "webvm", "key": "Tag", "operator": "EQUALS", "resource_type": "Condition" } ], "description": "web group", "display_name": "web group", "_revision":0 }

Successful Response:

Response Code:

200 OK

Response Headers:

Content-type: application/json

Response Body:

Group+

Group (schema)

Name	Description	Type	Notes
_create_time	Timestamp of resource creation	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_create_user	ID of the user who created this resource	string	Readonly
_last_modified_time	Timestamp of last modification	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_last_modified_user	ID of the user who last modified this resource	string	Readonly
_links	References related to this resource The server will populate this field when returing the resource. Ignored on PUT and POST.	array of ResourceLink	Readonly
_protection	Indicates protection status of this resource Protection status is one of the following: PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is not allowed to modify it. NOT_PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is allowed to modify it REQUIRE_OVERRIDE - the client who retrieved the entity is a super user and can modify it, but only when providing the request header X-Allow-Overwrite=true. UNKNOWN - the _protection field could not be determined for this entity.	string	Readonly
_revision	Generation of this resource config The _revision property describes the current revision of the resource. To prevent clients from overwriting each other's changes, PUT operations must include the current _revision of the resource, which clients should obtain by issuing a GET operation. If the _revision provided in a PUT request is missing or stale, the operation will be rejected.	int
_schema	Schema for this resource	string	Readonly
_self	Link to this resource	SelfResourceLink	Readonly
_system_owned	Indicates system owned resource	boolean	Readonly
children	subtree for this type within policy tree subtree for this type within policy tree containing nested elements.	array of ChildPolicyConfigResource (Abstract type: pass one of the following concrete types) ChildDnsSecurityProfileBindingMap ChildGroupDiscoveryProfileBindingMap ChildGroupMonitoringProfileBindingMap ChildPolicyFirewallFloodProtectionProfileBindingMap ChildPolicyFirewallSessionTimerProfileBindingMap
description	Description of this resource	string	Maximum length: 1024 Sortable
display_name	Identifier to use when displaying entity in logs or GUI Defaults to ID if not set	string	Maximum length: 255 Sortable
expression	Expression The expression list must follow below criteria: 1. A non-empty expression list, must be of odd size. In a list, with indices starting from 0, all non-conjunction expressions must be at even indices, separated by a conjunction expression at odd indices. 2. The total of ConditionExpression and NestedExpression in a list should not exceed 5. 3. The total of IPAddressExpression, MACAddressExpression, external IDs in an ExternalIDExpression and paths in a PathExpression must not exceed 500. 4. Each expression must be a valid Expression. See the definition of the Expression type for more information.	array of Expression (Abstract type: pass one of the following concrete types) Condition ConjunctionOperator ExternalIDExpression IPAddressExpression IdentityGroupExpression MACAddressExpression NestedExpression PathExpression
extended_expression	Extended Expression Extended Expression allows additional higher level context to be specified for grouping criteria. (e.g. user AD group) This field allow users to specified user context as the source of a firewall rule for IDFW feature. Current version only support a single IdentityGroupExpression. In the future, this might expand to support other conjunction and non-conjunction expression. The extended expression list must follow below criteria: 1. Contains a single IdentityGroupExpression. No conjunction expression is supported. 2. No other non-conjunction expression is supported, except for IdentityGroupExpression. 3. Each expression must be a valid Expression. See the definition of the Expression type for more information. 4. Extended expression are implicitly AND with expression. 5. No nesting can be supported if this value is used. 6. If a Group is using extended expression, this group must be the only member in the source field of an communication map.	array of Expression (Abstract type: pass one of the following concrete types) Condition ConjunctionOperator ExternalIDExpression IPAddressExpression IdentityGroupExpression MACAddressExpression NestedExpression PathExpression	Maximum items: 1
group_type	Indicates the group type. Group type can be specified during create and update of a group. Empty group type indicates a 'generic' group, ie group can include any entity from the valid GroupMemberType.	array of GroupTypes	Maximum items: 1
id	Unique identifier of this resource	string	Sortable
marked_for_delete	Indicates whether the intent object is marked for deletion Intent objects are not directly deleted from the system when a delete is invoked on them. They are marked for deletion and only when all the realized entities for that intent object gets deleted, the intent object is deleted. Objects that are marked for deletion are not returned in GET call. One can use the search API to get these objects.	boolean	Readonly Default: "False"
overridden	Indicates whether this object is the overridden intent object Global intent objects cannot be modified by the user. However, certain global intent objects can be overridden locally by use of this property. In such cases, the overridden local values take precedence over the globally defined values for the properties.	boolean	Readonly Default: "False"
parent_path	Path of its parent Path of its parent	string	Readonly
path	Absolute path of this object Absolute path of this object	string	Readonly
realization_id	A unique identifier assigned by the system for realizing intent This is a UUID generated by the system for realizing the entity object. In most cases this should be same as 'unique_id' of the entity. However, in some cases this can be different because of entities have migrated thier unique identifier to NSX Policy intent objects later in the timeline and did not use unique_id for realization. Realization id is helpful for users to debug data path to correlate the configuration with corresponding intent.	string	Readonly
reference	Indicates if the group is a reference. If true, indicates that this is a remote reference group. Such group will have span different from the its parent domain. Default value is false.	boolean	Readonly Default: "False"
relative_path	Relative path of this object Path relative from its parent	string	Readonly
resource_type	Must be set to the value Group	string
state	Realization state of this group	string	Enum: IN_PROGRESS, SUCCESS, FAILURE
tags	Opaque identifiers meaningful to the API user	array of Tag	Maximum items: 30
unique_id	A unique identifier assigned by the system This is a UUID generated by the GM/LM to uniquely identify entites in a federated environment. For entities that are stretched across multiple sites, the same ID will be used on all the stretched sites.	string	Readonly

Example Response:

{ "resource_type": "Group", "description": "web group", "id": "webgroup", "display_name": "web group", "path": "/infra/domains/vmc/groups/webgroup", "parent_path": "/infra/domains/vmc", "relative_path": "webgroup", "expression": [ { "resource_type": "Condition", "member_type": "VirtualMachine", "value": "webvm", "key": "Tag", "operator": "EQUALS", "_protection": "NOT_PROTECTED" } ], "_create_user": "admin", "_create_time": 1517308749250, "_last_modified_user": "admin", "_last_modified_time": 1517308749250, "_system_owned": false, "_protection": "NOT_PROTECTED", "_revision": 0 }

Required Permissions:

crud

Feature:

policy_grouping

Additional Errors:

• 301 Moved Permanently
• 307 Temporary Redirect
• 400 Bad Request
• 403 Forbidden
• 409 Conflict
• 412 Precondition Failed
• 500 Internal Server Error
• 503 Service Unavailable