Create Adapter Instance

Pass the not-required parameters to indicate whether need to return default value or null in a result for identifiers that have no/null value in request body and continue instantiating adapter even if no connection is established.
In case of VCenter adapter instance, UI/license extension registration should be run separately.

Request

URI

POST

https://{api_host}/suite-api/api/adapters

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Query Parameters

boolean

extractIdentifierDefaults

Optional

Constraints: default: false

Indicates whether need to return default value or null in a result for
identifiers that have no/null value in request body

boolean

force

Optional

Constraints: default: true

Proceed with adapter instance creation even if connection is not established

Request Body

The adapter instance creation request

create-adapter-instance of type(s) application/json

Required

Show optional properties

{
    "name": "string",
    "adapterKindKey": "string"
}

"{\n  \"name\" : \"VC Adapter Instance\",\n  \"description\" : \"A vCenter Adapter Instance\",\n  \"collectorId\" : \"1\",\n  \"adapterKindKey\" : \"VMWARE\",\n  \"resourceIdentifiers\" : [ {\n    \"name\" : \"AUTODISCOVERY\",\n    \"value\" : \"true\"\n  }, {\n    \"name\" : \"PROCESSCHANGEEVENTS\",\n    \"value\" : \"true\"\n  }, {\n    \"name\" : \"VCURL\",\n    \"value\" : \"VC_IP_Address\"\n  } ],\n  \"credential\" : {\n    \"name\" : \"New Principal Credential\",\n    \"adapterKindKey\" : \"VMWARE\",\n    \"credentialKindKey\" : \"PRINCIPALCREDENTIAL\",\n    \"fields\" : [ {\n      \"name\" : \"USER\",\n      \"value\" : \"user_name\"\n    }, {\n      \"name\" : \"PASSWORD\",\n      \"value\" : \"passwd\"\n    } ]\n  },\n  \"physicalDatacenterId\" : \"39805d87-c2d9-4bb5-916a-480c37cdcd92\"\n}"

string

name

Required

Constraints: minLength: 3 maxLength: 300

The name of the Adapter instance

string

description

Optional

Optional description of the Adapter instance

string

collectorId

Optional

The Collector instance used by this adapter instance. If not specified, the system will choose an appropriate Collector for you

string As uuid As uuid

collectorGroupId

Optional

The Collector Group ID to be used for this Adapter Instance. If not specified, the system will choose an appropriate Collector group for you

string

adapterKindKey

Required

The Adapter Kind key

array of object

resourceIdentifiers

Optional

Adapter instance specific resource identifiers

object

credential

Optional

The Credential Instance information

integer As int32 As int32

monitoringInterval

Optional

Constraints: minimum: 0

Minutes part of the monitoring Interval of the Adapter Instance, where the monitoring Interval is the frequency of data source query for stats and properties.

integer As int32 As int32

monitoringIntervalSeconds

Optional

Constraints: minimum: 0

Seconds part of the monitoring Interval of the Adapter Instance, where the monitoring Interval is the frequency of data source query for stats and properties.

string As uuid As uuid

physicalDatacenterId

Optional

The Physical Datacenter ID to be used for this Adapter Instance. It is Optional

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Token-based-authorization

Responses

201

The adapter instance that was created

Returns adapter-instance of type(s) application/json

"{\n  \"resourceKey\" : {\n    \"name\" : \"VC Adapter for 10.20.88.111\",\n    \"adapterKindKey\" : \"VMWARE\",\n    \"resourceKindKey\" : \"Adapter\",\n    \"resourceIdentifiers\" : [ ]\n  },\n  \"description\" : \"A vCenter Adapter Instance\",\n  \"collectorId\" : 1,\n  \"credentialInstanceId\" : \"f34c7366-b73b-4605-be83-ccf074dabcdd\",\n  \"id\" : \"ef8fc312-efd4-4bf1-a832-9c1b9eac63f8\"\n}"

object

resourceKey

Required

Represents a composite key for uniquely identifying a Resource.

string

description

Optional

Optional description of the Adapter instance

integer As int32 As int32

collectorId

Optional

The ID of the Collector that manages this adapter instance. This is optional and if not specified, system will choose an appropriate collector.

string As uuid As uuid

collectorGroupId

Optional

The ID of the collector group. If not specified, the system will choose an appropriate Collector group for you

string As uuid As uuid

credentialInstanceId

Optional

The Credential Instance identifier used by this adapter instance

integer As int32 As int32

monitoringInterval

Optional

Constraints: minimum: 0

Minutes part of the monitoring Interval of the Adapter Instance.

integer As int32 As int32

monitoringIntervalSeconds

Optional

Constraints: minimum: 0

Seconds part of the monitoring Interval of the Adapter Instance

integer As int32 As int32

numberOfMetricsCollected

Optional

The number of metrics reported by this adapter instance.

integer As int32 As int32

numberOfResourcesCollected

Optional

The number of resources being monitored by this resource.

integer As int64 As int64

lastHeartbeat

Optional

Last time when this adapter instance communicated with VMware Cloud Foundation Operations Server.

integer As int64 As int64

lastCollected

Optional

Last time adapter instance reported collection of resources/stats.

string

messageFromAdapterInstance

Optional

Any message from the adapter instance.

array of object

adapter-certificates

Required

The set of untrusted certificates returned by the adapter source

array of object

links

Optional

Represents a HTTP 'link' element.
It is implicit that all the link tags support http 'GET' method.

string As uuid As uuid

physicalDatacenterId

Optional

The Physical Datacenter ID to be used for this Adapter Instance.It is Optional

string As uuid As uuid

Optional

The UUID of the adapter instance

400

If create 'adapter instance' failed. Typically the service will return extra information as to why the creation failed.

Operation doesn't return any data structure

Code Samples

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                    curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: <value>' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"adapterKindKey:"string","name:"string"}' https://{api_host}/suite-api/api/adapters

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Description

Request

Query Parameters

Request Body

Authentication

Response

201 Response Body

Errors

Adapters Operations

GET

Enumerate Adapter Instances