Looking for a programmatic way to modify or create objects in Aria Automation

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• There is a desire to use an automated method to modify or create objects such Naming Template that uses hundreds, or thousands of Matching Patterns.

Environment

Aria Automation 8.18.1

Cause

There may be a desire to create a script to manage an object that would have a high administrative overhead in the UI.

Resolution

Aria Automation has an API available which should make this possible for many constructs or object types.

The documentation can be found at https://<your_Aria_Automation_FQDN>/automation-ui/api-docs/, on https://developer.broadcom.com/xapis and in the VMware Aria Automation API Programming Guide