Search Index Find Child

Search Index Find Child

Finds a particular child based on a managed entity name.

This only searches the immediate children of a managed entity. For a Datacenter, the host and vm folders are considered children. For a ComputeResource, the hosts and root ResourcePool are considered children.

Required privileges: System.View

Request
URI
POST
https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/SearchIndex/{moId}/FindChild
COPY
Path Parameters
string
moId
Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case SearchIndex/{moId}.

string
release
Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.3.0 APIs.

Request Body
FindChildRequestType of type(s) application/json
Required

Show optional properties

{
    "entity": {},
    "name": "string"
}
{
    "entity": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "name": "string"
}
MoRefManagedEntity
entity
Required

Reference to an instance of the ManagedEntity managed object.

string
name
Required

The name of the child object.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
200

The managed entity that is found, or null if no match is found.

Returns MoRefManagedEntity of type(s) application/json
This response body class contains all of the following: MoRefExtensibleManagedObject 
{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "type": "string",
    "value": "string"
}

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