Create Proxy | VMware Cloud Director OpenAPI

Create Proxy

Creates a proxy.

Request

URI

POST

https://{api_host}/cloudapi/1.0.0/proxies

COPY

Request Body

The new proxy model.

Proxy of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "name": "Proxy Sample Name",
    "id": "string",
    "parent": {
        "name": "string",
        "id": "string"
    },
    "proxyType": "string",
    "enabled": false,
    "tenantVisible": false,
    "active": false,
    "token": "string",
    "parentProxy": {
        "name": "string",
        "id": "string"
    },
    "targetHost": "sampleVc.vmware.com",
    "uiUrl": "https://sampleVc.vmware.com"
}

string As .*[\S].*

name

Required

name

string

Optional

EntityReference

parent

Required

parent

string

proxyType

Required

proxyType

Possible values are : VC, SSO, NSX, ESX, GENERIC,

boolean

enabled

Optional

True if the proxy is enabled. Proxy can only be enabled/disabled by privileged users. A disabled proxy cannot be activated and thus, cannot be used. When a proxy is disabled, all active sessions are terminated.

boolean

tenantVisible

Optional

Whether this proxy has been published to tenants.

boolean

active

Optional

True if the proxy is currently active for the user session associated with the request made to get the proxy. An inactive proxy cannot be used.

string

token

Optional

The generated read-only token that should be used as the password when using this proxy. To generate a new token, activate the proxy. The token is tied to the user session that activated the proxy. If the proxy is inactive, this value will be null.

EntityReference

parentProxy

Optional

parentProxy

string

targetHost

Required

IP address or FQDN of the host being proxied. Lower case formatting will be applied to the value of the property. This is not editable once the proxy has been created.

string As uri As uri

uiUrl

Optional

The URL of the proxied component's UI endpoint. This is the URL that the browser tab will be pointed to when the proxy is launched via the H5 UI of VCD.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

ApiKeyAuth

Responses

202

The request have been accepted and the task to monitor the request is in the Location header.

Operation doesn't return any data structure

Availability

Added in 34.0

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