When
talking about automation, the capability of receiving
remote calls is the success factor of any plataform, might be via command line or API calls.
VMware NSX
is not an exception, providing APIs functionality you can monitor, manager and
troubleshoot it remotely.
This post
is more a personal reference, so I can always come back and check how to access it, but it can also help
others starting on this field .
First of
all, you need a API client to issue commands to your remote system. There are a
lot of them out them, personally I’m using the RestClient.
To start issuing commands you need to provide the proper credentials to access NSX.
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On
the upper bar Click on Authorization
and then on Basic Authentication;
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Provide
the username and password with the required privileges;
-
Click
OK;
Now we need
to set up the header
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On
the upper back, click on Headers and
then on Custom Header;
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For
Name, type: Content-Type;
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For
Value, type: application/xml;
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Click
OK;
Before
running any command make sure the Authentication and Header are always present.
Let’s
make a test to guarantee everything is configured properly.
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For
method, select: GET;
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For
URL, type: https://"nsx_manager"/api/1.0/appliance-management/global/info
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Click
Send;
If you see the version of your NSX Manager as the example above, everything is set up correctly.
