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Mastering PowerCLI

You're reading from   Mastering PowerCLI Master PowerCLI to automate all aspects of VMware environments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785286858
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sajal Debnath Sajal Debnath
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. PowerShell and PowerCLI Refresher FREE CHAPTER 2. Reusable Advanced Functions and Scripts 3. Deploying vSphere Hosts 4. Managing Networks 5. Managing Storage 6. Managing Clusters and Other Constructs 7. Managing Virtual Machines 8. Managing vSphere Security, SRM, vCloud Air, and vROps 9. Managing the vSphere API 10. Using REST APIs 11. Creating Windows GUI 12. Best Practices and Sample Scripts Index

Authenticating and getting a vRA token


To manage the vRA environment through REST API, we will need HTTP bearer tokens in request headers for the authentication of requests. So we get a bearer token and use that instead of supplying a user ID and password each and every time we want to connect to vRA. Once we get a bearer token, we can use it until it expires or we purposefully delete it. By default, a bearer token is valid for 24 hours. If for some reason you need to change the default duration, follow the instructions provided in the following Web page: http://pubs.vmware.com/vra-62/index.jsp#com.vmware.vra.programming.doc/GUID-FDB47B40-F651-4FBD-8D1E-AC6FC8FA7A96.html.

For example, if for security purposes, you want to change the default validity time to a smaller number of hours.

To get a bearer token, we need to POST a request to https://<vRA>/identity/api/tokens. Since we would use the HTTP protocol, we need to build Header and the Body. We need to pass two parameters in Header...

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