NSX-T Data Center REST API
ContainerConfiguration (schema)
Container that holds widgets
Represents a container to group widgets that belong to a common category or have a common purpose.
| 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 |
| condition | Expression for evaluating condition If the condition is met then the widget will be displayed to UI. If no condition is provided, then the widget will be displayed unconditionally. |
string | Maximum length: 1024 |
| datasources | Array of Datasource Instances with their relative urls The 'datasources' represent the sources from which data will be fetched. Currently, only NSX-API is supported as a 'default' datasource. An example of specifying 'default' datasource along with the urls to fetch data from is given at 'example_request' section of 'CreateWidgetConfiguration' API. |
array of Datasource | Minimum items: 0 |
| default_filter_value | Default filter value to be passed to datasources Default filter values to be passed to datasources. This will be used when the report is requested without filter values. |
array of DefaultFilterValue | |
| description | Description of this resource | string | Maximum length: 1024 Sortable |
| display_name | Widget Title Title of the widget. If display_name is omitted, the widget will be shown without a title. |
string | Maximum length: 255 |
| drilldown_id | Id of drilldown widget Id of drilldown widget, if any. Id should be a valid id of an existing widget. A widget is considered as drilldown widget when it is associated with any other widget and provides more detailed information about any data item from the parent widget. |
string | Maximum length: 255 |
| feature_set | Features required to view the widget Features required to view the widget. |
FeatureSet | |
| filter | Id of filter widget for subscription Id of filter widget for subscription, if any. Id should be a valid id of an existing filter widget. Filter widget should be from the same view. Datasource URLs should have placeholder values equal to filter alias to accept the filter value on filter change. This field is deprecated instead use 'filters' property. |
string | Deprecated |
| filter_value_required | Flag to indicate if filter value is necessary Flag to indicate that widget will continue to work without filter value. If this flag is set to false then default_filter_value is manadatory. |
boolean | Default: "True" |
| filters | A List of filter ids applied to this widget configuration A List of filter applied to this widget configuration. This will be used to identify the filters applied to this widget. |
array of string | |
| footer | Footer | ||
| header | Header | ||
| icons | Icons Icons to be applied at dashboard for widgets and UI elements. |
array of Icon | |
| id | Unique identifier of this resource | string | Sortable |
| is_drilldown | Set as a drilldown widget Set to true if this widget should be used as a drilldown. |
boolean | Default: "False" |
| labels | Labels Labels for the container. |
array of Label | Minimum items: 0 |
| layout | Layout of widgets inside container Layout of widgets can be either vertical or horizontal. If layout is not specified a default horizontal layout is applied. This property is deprecated. Now the layout inside the container can be taken care with the help of 'rowspan' and 'colspan' property. |
Layout | Deprecated |
| legend | Legend for the widget Legend to be displayed. If legend is not needed, do not include it. |
Legend | |
| navigation | Navigation to a specified UI page Hyperlink of the specified UI page that provides details. |
string | Maximum length: 1024 |
| plot_configs | List of plotting configuration for a given widget. List of plotting configuration for a given widget. Widget plotting configurations which are common across all the widgets types should be define here. |
array of WidgetPlotConfiguration | |
| resource_type | Must be set to the value ContainerConfiguration | string | Required Readonly Enum: LabelValueConfiguration, DonutConfiguration, MultiWidgetConfiguration, ContainerConfiguration, StatsConfiguration, GridConfiguration, GraphConfiguration, CustomWidgetConfiguration, CustomFilterWidgetConfiguration, TimeRangeDropdownFilterWidgetConfiguration, DropdownFilterWidgetConfiguration, SpacerWidgetConfiguration, LegendWidgetConfiguration Maximum length: 255 |
| rowspan | Vertical span Represents the vertical span of the widget / container. 1 Row span is equal to 20px. |
int | Minimum: 1 |
| shared | Visiblity of widgets to other users Please use the property 'shared' of View instead of this. The widgets of a shared view are visible to other users. |
boolean | Deprecated |
| show_header | This decides to show the container header or not. If the value of this field is set to true then card header will be displayed otherwise only card will be displayed without header. |
boolean | |
| span | Horizontal span Represents the horizontal span of the widget / container. |
int | Minimum: 1 Maximum: 12 |
| tags | Opaque identifiers meaningful to the API user | array of Tag | Maximum items: 30 |
| weight | Weightage or placement of the widget or container Specify relavite weight in WidgetItem for placement in a view. Please see WidgetItem for details. |
int | Deprecated |
| widgets | Widgets held by the container If not specified, creates an empty container. |
array of WidgetItem | Minimum items: 0 |