Vasa Provider Vasa Provider Reconnect Task

Reconnect to the provider.

This API will be used to reconnect to a provider that is in "disconnected" state. If reconnecting fails due to InvalidCertificate exception, that means the current provider certificate is expired or corrupted. Then user has to recover the provider following these steps: 1. Unregister the provider using UnregisterProvider_Task 2. Provision a new self signed certificate for the provider 3. Register the provider using RegisterProvider_Task If the provider is not in "disconnected" state, this operation will be a no-op. Note: This API works only for providers that support VASA 2.0 and onwards.

Required privileges: StorageViews.ConfigureService

Request

URI

POST

https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/sms/VasaProvider/{moId}/VasaProviderReconnect_Task

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 VasaProvider/{moId}.

string

release

Required

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

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

Session

Responses

200

Returns MoRefTask of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: MoRefExtensibleManagedObject

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "type": "string",
    "value": "string"
}

500

InvalidCertificate: if the provider certificate is invalid

ProviderConnectionFailed: if an error is encountered while reconnecting to the provider.

Returns MethodFault of type(s) application/json

This response body class contains all of the following: Any

{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
    "faultMessage": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": "string",
            "arg": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": {
                        "_typeName": "string"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "message": "string"
        }
    ]
}

MethodFault

faultCause

Optional

The base data object type for all the object model faults that an application might handle.

array of LocalizableMessage

faultMessage

Optional

Message which has details about the error Message can also contain a key to message catalog which can be used to generate better localized messages.

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