Create Identity Providers

Create a vCenter Server identity provider. if you do not have all of the privileges described as follows:

Operation execution requires VcIdentityProviders.Create and VcIdentityProviders.Manage.

Request

URI

POST

https://{api_host}/api/vcenter/identity/providers

COPY

Request Body

Identity_Providers_CreateSpec of type(s) application/json

Required

{
    "config_tag": "string",
    "oauth2": {
        "auth_endpoint": "string",
        "token_endpoint": "string",
        "public_key_uri": "string",
        "client_id": "string",
        "client_secret": "string",
        "issuer": "string",
        "authentication_method": "string"
    },
    "oidc": {
        "discovery_endpoint": "string",
        "client_id": "string",
        "client_secret": "string"
    },
    "org_ids": [
        "string"
    ],
    "is_default": false,
    "name": "string",
    "domain_names": [
        "string"
    ],
    "idm_protocol": "string",
    "idm_endpoints": [
        "string"
    ],
    "active_directory_over_ldap": {
        "user_name": "string",
        "password": "string",
        "users_base_dn": "string",
        "groups_base_dn": "string",
        "server_endpoints": [
            "string"
        ],
        "cert_chain": {
            "cert_chain": [
                "string"
            ]
        }
    },
    "upn_claim": "string",
    "groups_claim": "string",
    "federation_type": "string"
}

Identity_Providers_ConfigType

config_tag

Required

The Providers.ConfigType structure contains the possible types of vCenter Server identity providers.
Oauth2 : Config for OAuth2
Oidc : Config for OIDC

Identity_Providers_Oauth2CreateSpec

oauth2

Optional

The Providers.Oauth2CreateSpec structure contains the information used to create an OAuth2 identity provider.

Identity_Providers_OidcCreateSpec

oidc

Optional

The Providers.OidcCreateSpec structure contains the information used to create an OIDC identity provider.

array of string

org_ids

Optional

The set of orgIds as part of SDDC creation which provides the basis for tenancy If unset, the set will be empty.

boolean

is_default

Optional

Specifies whether the provider is the default provider. Setting Providers.CreateSpec.is-default of current provider to True makes all other providers non-default. If no other providers created in this vCenter Server before, this parameter will be disregarded, and the provider will always be set to the default. If unset the provider will be the default provider if it is the first provider that is created, and will not be the default provider otherwise.

string

name

Optional

The user friendly name for the provider. This name can be used for human-readable identification purposes, but it does not have to be unique, as the system will use internal UUIDs to differentiate providers. If unset, the name will be the empty string

array of string

domain_names

Optional

Set of fully qualified domain names to trust when federating with this identity provider. Tokens from this identity provider will only be validated if the user belongs to one of these domains, and any domain-qualified groups in the tokens will be filtered to include only those groups that belong to one of these domains. If unset, domainNames will be the empty set and the domain validation behavior at login with this identity provider will be as follows: the user's domain will be parsed from the User Principal Name (UPN) value that is found in the tokens returned by the identity provider. This domain will then be implicitly trusted and used to filter any groups that are also provided in the tokens.

object

auth_query_params

Optional

key/value pairs that are to be appended to the authEndpoint request.

How to append to authEndpoint request: If the map is not empty, a "?" is added to the endpoint URL, and combination of each k and each string in the v is added with an "&" delimiter. Details:

If the value contains only one string, then the key is added with "k=v".
If the value is an empty list, then the key is added without a "=v".
If the value contains multiple strings, then the key is repeated in the query-string for each string in the value.

If unset, the map will be empty.

Identity_Providers_IdmProtocol

idm_protocol

Optional

The Providers.IdmProtocol structure contains the possible types of communication protocols to the identity management endpoints.
REST : REST protocol based identity management endpoints
SCIM : SCIM V1.1 protocol based identity management endpoints
SCIM2_0 : SCIM V2.0 protocol based identity management endpoints
LDAP : LDAP protocol based identity management endpoints

array of string

idm_endpoints

Optional

Identity management endpoints. When specified, at least one endpoint must be provided. This field is optional and it is only relevant when the value of Providers.CreateSpec.idm-protocol is one of REST, SCIM, or SCIM2_0.

Identity_Providers_ActiveDirectoryOverLdap

active_directory_over_ldap

Optional

The Providers.ActiveDirectoryOverLdap structure contains the information about to how to use an Active Directory over LDAP connection to allow searching for users and groups if the identity provider is an On-Prem service.

string

upn_claim

Optional

Specifies which claim provides the user principal name (UPN) for the user. If unset, the claim named 'acct' will be used to provide backwards compatibility with CSP.

string

groups_claim

Optional

Specifies which claim provides the group membership for the token subject. These groups will be used for mapping to local groups per the claim map. If unset, the default behavior will be CSP backwards compatiblility. The groups for the subject will be comprised of the groups in 'group_names' and 'group_ids' claims.

Identity_FederationType

federation_type

Optional

The FederationType enumerated type contains the possible types of federation paths for, vCenter Server identity providers configuration.
DIRECT_FEDERATION : vCenter Server federated directly to the external identity provider.
INDIRECT_FEDERATION : vCenter Server federated indirectly to the external identity provider, by means of an intermediary federation broker.

Authentication

This operation uses the following authentication methods.

api_key

Responses

201

The identifier of the created identity provider. The result will be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.vcenter.identity.Providers.

Returns string of type(s) application/json

Operation doesn't return any data structure

400

com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.invalid_argument : if invalid arguments are provided in createSpec. | com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.already_exists : if provider exists for provider ID in given spec.

Returns Std_Errors_Error of type(s) application/json

{
    "messages": [
        {
            "id": "string",
            "default_message": "string",
            "args": [
                "string"
            ],
            "localized": "string"
        }
    ],
    "error_type": "string"
}

array of Std_LocalizableMessage

messages

Required

Stack of one or more localizable messages for human error consumers. The message at the top of the stack (first in the list) describes the error from the perspective of the operation the client invoked.

Each subsequent message in the stack describes the "cause" of the prior message.

object

data

Optional

Data to facilitate clients responding to the operation reporting a standard error to indicating that it was unable to complete successfully. Operations may provide data that clients can use when responding to errors. Since the data that clients need may be specific to the context of the operation reporting the error, different operations that report the same error may provide different data in the error. The documentation for each each operation will describe what, if any, data it provides for each error it reports.

The ArgumentLocations, FileLocations, and TransientIndication structures are intended as possible values for this field. DynamicID may also be useful as a value for this field (although that is not its primary purpose). Some services may provide their own specific structures for use as the value of this field when reporting errors from their operations.

Some operations will not set this field when reporting errors.

Std_Errors_Error_Type

error_type

Optional

Enumeration of all standard errors. Used as discriminator in protocols that have no standard means for transporting the error type, e.g. REST.
ERROR : Discriminator for the Error type.
ALREADY_EXISTS : Discriminator for the AlreadyExists type.
ALREADY_IN_DESIRED_STATE : Discriminator for the AlreadyInDesiredState type.
CANCELED : Discriminator for the Canceled type.
CONCURRENT_CHANGE : Discriminator for the ConcurrentChange type.
FEATURE_IN_USE : Discriminator for the FeatureInUse type.
INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR : Discriminator for the InternalServerError type.
INVALID_ARGUMENT : Discriminator for the InvalidArgument type.
INVALID_ELEMENT_CONFIGURATION : Discriminator for the InvalidElementConfiguration type.
INVALID_ELEMENT_TYPE : Discriminator for the InvalidElementType type.
INVALID_REQUEST : Discriminator for the InvalidRequest type.
NOT_ALLOWED_IN_CURRENT_STATE : Discriminator for the NotAllowedInCurrentState type.
NOT_FOUND : Discriminator for the NotFound type.
OPERATION_NOT_FOUND : Discriminator for the OperationNotFound type.
RESOURCE_BUSY : Discriminator for the ResourceBusy type.
RESOURCE_IN_USE : Discriminator for the ResourceInUse type.
RESOURCE_INACCESSIBLE : Discriminator for the ResourceInaccessible type.
SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE : Discriminator for the ServiceUnavailable type.
TIMED_OUT : Discriminator for the TimedOut type.
UNABLE_TO_ALLOCATE_RESOURCE : Discriminator for the UnableToAllocateResource type.
UNAUTHENTICATED : Discriminator for the Unauthenticated type.
UNAUTHORIZED : Discriminator for the Unauthorized type.
UNEXPECTED_INPUT : Discriminator for the UnexpectedInput type.
UNSUPPORTED : Discriminator for the Unsupported type.
UNVERIFIED_PEER : Discriminator for the UnverifiedPeer type.

403

com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthorized : if authorization is not given to caller.

Returns Std_Errors_Error of type(s) application/json

{
    "messages": [
        {
            "id": "string",
            "default_message": "string",
            "args": [
                "string"
            ],
            "localized": "string"
        }
    ],
    "error_type": "string"
}

array of Std_LocalizableMessage

messages

Required

Each subsequent message in the stack describes the "cause" of the prior message.

object

data

Optional

Some operations will not set this field when reporting errors.

Std_Errors_Error_Type

error_type

Optional

default

'Default' means this response is used for all HTTP codes that are not covered individually for this operation.

Returns Std_Errors_Error of type(s) application/json

{
    "messages": [
        {
            "id": "string",
            "default_message": "string",
            "args": [
                "string"
            ],
            "localized": "string"
        }
    ],
    "error_type": "string"
}

array of Std_LocalizableMessage

messages

Required

Each subsequent message in the stack describes the "cause" of the prior message.

object

data

Optional

Some operations will not set this field when reporting errors.

Std_Errors_Error_Type

error_type

Optional